I am America
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Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1951 Alba, New Mexico, when her father forbids her from pursuing her dream of performing Mexican ballads as a "corridisto" and participating on the picket line because she is a girl, twelve-year-old Ana Maria finds a way to help during the long strike for better working and living conditions for the miners at Empire Zinc.
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Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Even though Ida B. Wells urges Black Americans to boycott the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, young Lorraine Williams will do anything for a chance to see her idol, the Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones, perform at the fair"--
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Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Living in California in 1916, Margaret Singh thinks nothing of the war in Europe or the cause of Indian independence until the United States enters the war, her father is arrested, and her own allegiances are called into question. Includes author's note.
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When the earth dragon trembled: a story of Chinatown during the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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