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Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California

by Jerry Stanley

Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 780L · 85 pages · 2000

Why we'd hand it over

The only accessible narrative history of African Americans in the Gold Rush for this age—rigorous without being preachy, and it expands kids' sense of who 'pioneers' were.

Where to get it

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