Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl

Resource Information

The work Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Maritcha : a nineteenth-century American girl

Title remainder

a nineteenth-century American girl

Statement of responsibility

[by] Tonya Bolden

Creator

• Bolden, Tonya

Subject

• African American girls -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• New York (State) -- Race relations
• New York (State) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Free African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Lyons, Maritcha Rémond, 1848-1929
• Women -- Biography
• New York (State) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• New York (State) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Juvenile materials
• Lyons, Maritcha Rémond, 1848-1929 -- Juvenile literature
• African American -- New York (State) | New York -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
• African americans -- Biography
• New York (State) -- Social conditions -- 19th century

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile materials
• Biography
• Social life and customs

Language

eng

Summary

Based on an actual memoir written by Maritcha Remond Lyons, who was born and raised in New York City, this poignant story tells what it was like to be a black child born free during the days of slavery. Everyday experiences are interspersed with hight-point moments, such as visiting the U.S.'s first world's fair. Also included are the Draft Riots of 1863, when Maritcha and her siblings fled to Brooklyn while her parents stayed behind to protect their home. The book concludes with her fight to attend a whites-only high school in Providence, Rhode Island, and her triumphant victory, making her the first black person in its graduating class. The book includes photographs of Maritcha, her family, and friends, as well as archival and contemporary maps, photographs, and illustrations

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 974.7/1/00496073
• 974.7/1/00496073
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

F128.9.N4

LC item number

B65 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

juvenile