Books with author Elizabeth Yates and Nora S. Unwin

The story of the young Prudence Crandall’s stout-hearted resistance to danger and violence inspirits us in the same way. There really was a patriotic Prudence Crandall who fought bravely against heavy odds for what we now love as one of the bases of our American heritage. She is no imaginary heroine. She was a slender young woman, with bright blue eyes, soft blond hair, and a special way of speaking, quiet, controlled –, “lady-like,” as people said in the early part of the 1800’s, – but firm as granite. The author of this book has searched letters, memoirs, documents of all kinds, and has found out so much about her, that we can actually see her as she stood, brave as a lion, in her decorous, long, spreading skirts, her well-brushed golden hair gleaming, her bonnet-strings tied neatly under her firm chin.

A novelization of the events surrounding Prudence Crandall's school in Connecticut in the 1830s. She admitted a young black girl of 17 years old to the school, making it the first integrated school in America. What followed was a legal battle with the northern state as it tried to force her to segregate the school.She refused and stands as a testament to the courage of a normal American standing up for what is right against the force and injustice of the state.This edition has been optimized for Kindle with a functioning table of contents.

aIt does a man no good to be free until he learns how to live.a These were the words of Amos Fortune, born the son of a king of the At-mun-shi tribe in Africa. When Amos was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dignity and courage. He dreamed of being free and of buying the freedom of his closest friends. By the time he was sixty years old, Amos Fortune began to see those dreams come true. Amos Fortune, Free Man is a Newbery Award winner that is based on a true story.