Freedom Walkers Book Report

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In my opinion, the shared theme across all of the texts we read is that they all have something to do with the freedom and history of African American people. In the Freedom Walkers book I read, it was about the different people associated with black history. In the Emmett Till video we watched, it was about a black man who was wrongfully accused of flirting with a white woman and was punished for doing so. In the power of nonviolence, the author talked about how the black people stayed nonviolent throughout everything that happened to them. In the “Freedom Walkers” book I read, the entire book is about African American leaders who all impacted black history and what they did for the community. For example, rosa parks were in the book and she

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