Ray Anthony Shepard

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1) A long time coming: a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama

Author

Shepard, Ray Anthony

Pub. Date

2023.

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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6

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Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much — and how little — racism has changed since our country’s founding.

2) Now or never!: 54th Massachusetts Infantry's war to end slavery

Author

Shepard, Ray Anthony

Pub. Date

[2017]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5

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Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the...