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Woodtor, Dee

 
9780375405952: Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity
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ISBN 10: 037540595X ISBN 13: 9780375405952
Editorial: Random House Inc, 1999

Sinopsis

A guide to African American history and genealogy shares advice on tracing a family's African roots, explaining how to use the Internet, census reports, and other records to trace a family tree

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<b>Dr. Dee Parmer Woodtor</b> is an instructor at DePaul University's School for New Learning in Afro-American Family History and Genealogy and at Chicago's Newberry Library. She is the author of the children's book Big Meeting. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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h the kings of their ancestors so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old but the future springs from the past."<br>Mamadou Kouyate "Sundiata", An Epic of Old Mali, a.d. 1217-1257<br><br>Two major questions of the ages are: Who am I? and Where am I going? From the moment the first African slaves were dragged onto these shores, these questions have become increasingly harder for African-Americans to answer. To find the answers, you first must discover where you have been, you must go back to your family tree--but you must dig through rocky layers of lost information, of slavery--to find your roots.<br><br>During the Great Migration in the 1940s, when African-Americans fled the strangling hands of Jim Crow for the relative freedoms of the North, many tossed away or buried the painful memories of their past. As we approach the new millennium, African-Americans are reaching back to uncover where we have been, to help us determine wh

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Editorial
Random House Inc
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
037540595X
ISBN 13 
9780375405952
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
464
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