TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bolden,Tonya
TI  - Maritcha: a nineteenth-century American girl 
SN  - 9780810950450 (reinf. bdg.)
AV  - F128.9.N4 B65 2005
U1  - 974.7/1/00496073B 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harry N. Abrams
KW  - Lyons, Maritcha Rémond,
KW  - African American girls
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Free African Americans
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  - sears
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Maps on endpapers; Includes bibliographical references (p. 46); School Library Journal starred; Book Links (A.L.A.); Booklist starred; 8.2; Follett Library Resources; 3-6
N2  - Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School
ER  -