Please note that Cookies and JavaScript are required for you to view this website.

Check if you have Cookies and JavaScript enabled in your browser

UNDERGROUND RAILROADUNDERGROUND RAILROADRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

VALUE-PACKED SETS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • What Was the Underground Railroad
  • Slavery in the South
  • Heroes and Helpers
  • Escape!
  • The Roads to Freedom
  • Stars, Songs, and Secret Signs
  • Free at Last
Features:
  • LEXILE® READING LEVEL: 980L
ITEM #: 149
Single Copies: Qty. $3.99
Bundles of 10: Qty. $36.90
Save $3 per bundle and look in MY ACCOUNT to access your free Teacher’s Guide!
Click the page numbers to preview the pages

Sample Text
"There were no rails to ride on the Underground Railroad. No trains. No tickets. In fact, it wasn't a railroad at all. It wasn't even under the ground. But it was hidden, and it was secret. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of African-Americans and whites who helped runaway slaves from the South escape to freedom. Nobody knows exactly how many people helped them escape. . . "
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
LINCOLNLINCOLN
"As a young 'un, Abe Lincoln wasn't the sort of fellow you'd think would grow up to become president. Sure, he was a hard worker when he had to be. But give him a few minutes of free time, and he had his nose in a book. If he wasn't reading, he probably was delighting a willing audience with a knee-slappingly funny story. But young Abe was anything but aimless. With a few deeply held beliefs and a . . . "
CIVIL WARCIVIL WAR
"Military bands played rousing tunes as thousands of marching feet thundered along the paved streets of New York. Excited throngs roared their support. It was spring of 1861 and the nation was at war-against itself. After years of bitter disputes, 11 Southern states had seceded, which means they dissolved the union between themselves and the United States of America, and declared themselves the. . . "
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JRMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
"Martin Luther King, Jr., devoted his life to fighting injustice on behalf of all Americans. However, he didn't believe in fighting with guns, tanks, or fists. Instead, he believed in using peaceful means. He thought that positive words and ideas and nonviolent action could change the world. In 1955, when he was twenty-six years old and had just begun pastoring a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. . . "
CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS
"Slavery in the United States ended in 1865 with the end of the Civil War. But that was not the end of the mistreatment of African Americans. By the turn of the century, a system had developed to keep African-Americans “in their place.” That place was always inferior—socially, economically, and politically—to whites. The system was called segregation—the separation of the two races."
VALUE-PACKED SETS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad. By Katherine Ayers, Yearling, 2000
  • Slavery and the Underground Railroad. By Carin Ford, Enslow, 2004.
  • Life on the Underground Railroad. By Stuart Kallen, Lucent Books, 2000.
  • Harriet Tubman. By Cynthia Klingel, Child's World, 2004.
ADULT BOOKS
  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. By Allen Guelzo, Simon & Schuster, 2004.
  • Beyond the River. By Ann Hagedorn, Simon & Schuster, 2003
  • Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad. By George and Willene, Ivan Dee, 2003
WEBSITES
  • National Geographic - Underground Railroad: www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
  • National Park Service: Underground Railroad: www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm
  • Freedom Center: http://www.freedomcenter.org/
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
  • National Underground Railroad Freedom Center 50 East Freedom Way Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 www.freedomcenter.org
  • The National Underground Railroad Museum, 115 East 3rd Street, Maysville, Kentucky. (606) 564-6986.