Young Heroes in World History

Download or read book Young Heroes in World History written by Robin K. Berson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the lives depicted are those of Charles Eastman, raised as a Sioux, who was thrust at age fourteen into an alien white world and who later returned to his people as a physician and saved many lives at Wounded Knee; Olaudah Equiano, a West African sold into slavery in the eighteenth century whose autobiography offers an unflinching portrayal of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade; and Chai Ling, the girl who assumed leadership of the student rebellion in China's Tiananmen Square."--BOOK JACKET.