Houghton Mifflin Soar to Success: Paperback Level 7 Band Of Angels (Read Soar to Success 1999)
By HOUGHTON MIFFLIN.
Description
A Band of Angels is fiction, but it is based on real events and people. The character of Ella was inspired by Ella Sheppard Moore, who was born February 4, 1851, in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was able to free himself and young Ella from slavery, but before he could buy freedom for Ella's mother she was sold away. Ella was raised in Cincinnati, where she took music lessons. At fifteen, she was left penniless when her father died. She arrived at Fisk School in 1868 with only six dollars. Fisk was opened in 1866 as a school for former slaves and began offering college classes in 18...
ISBN(s)
0618059725, 9780618059720
