{"product_id":"friends-for-freedom-hardcover-30008","title":"Friends for Freedom (hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough an historical biography of two famous civil rights leaders, this book is worthy to support instruction topic of human rights and diversity. A good resource to validate the value and importance of friendship.    At a time when 'it wasn't proper for women to be friends with men' and 'You weren't supposed to be friends with someone whose skin was a different color,' Anthony and Douglass sought out each other based on mutual respect and a shared commitment toward equality. Tadgell's carefully drafted and evocative watercolors capture both the past and present obstacles Anthony and Douglass faced, from Douglass's youth as a slave to rotten eggs hurled at the two when they appeared in public together and combative differences of opinion, as when the Fifteenth Amendment proposed to give voting rights to black men but not to women. Author and artist notes and a time line conclude a powerful testament to a friendship that spanned decades as it challenged conventions and 'helped America grow up, too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43664501604412,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3677\/6508\/files\/9781580895682.jpg?v=1762976017","url":"https:\/\/nssbb.ednet.ns.ca\/products\/friends-for-freedom-hardcover-30008","provider":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","version":"1.0","type":"link"}