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This groundbreaking five-volume series recounts, like no other, the African American experience through contemporaneous documents, diaries, visuals, and texts. Singly or together, the sourcebooks offer an inclusive American history, revealing the interracial, multicultural heritage that became the foundation or our nation.

Compiled by leading scholars, classroom teachers, and curriculum specialists, each sourcebook contains:

• context essays written by scholars in African American history
• lesson plans written largely by teachers for teachers
• a glossary
• an CD, featuring all the primary source materials, plus a chronology, an annotated bibliography, and musical recordings.

Use a single sourcebook independently or all five to form a powerful vehicle for bringing the history of African American life to your classroom.

The complete series, Making Freedom: African Americans in U.S. History includes:
True to Our Native Land: Beginnings to 1770 (Sourcebook 1)
From Africa and the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the thirteen colonies

A Song Full of Hope: 1770-1830 (Sourcebook 2)
The American Revolution through the forging of our nation

Lift Ev'ry Voice: 1830-1860 (Sourcebook 3)
The volatile decades that led to the Civil War

Our New Day Begun: 1861-1877 (Sourcebook 4)
The Civil War and the difficult Reconstruction period that followed

March On Till Victory: 1877-1970 (Sourcebook 5)
The end of the Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement

The system requirements for the CD are:

Macintosh
PowerPC Processor
System 8 (or higher)
64MB RAM (more recommended)
SVGA Color Display (or better)
8x CD-ROM Drive (or faster)