R. Gregory Christie
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Language
English
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This book provides the chance for young readers to learn about the death-defying attempts of black Americans to gain the inalienable rights promised in the Declaration of Independence.
Step into the shoes of thirteen men and women of color, and discover how the American Revolution rattled the chains of slavery. Woelfle examines the death-defying attempts of black Americans to gain the inalienable rights promised in the Declaration of Independence....
Author
Series
Dyamonde Daniel books volume 1
Language
English
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Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy names Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois; and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
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English
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Told by a banker that he should sell fried chicken rather than books, since "Negroes don't read", Lewis Michaux defies the odds to build Harlem's National Memorial African Bookstore, an intellectual center and gathering place from 1939 to 1975.
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Language
English
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Description
This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Dedham's Black History Month List: Art is Resistance! (Children's Titles)
Read a book about an event from history (Youth)
Read a book about an event from history (Youth)
Description
Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and historical notes.
Author
Series
Dyamonde Daniel books volume 2
Language
English
Description
Free is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.
Author
Series
Dyamonde Daniel books volume 4
Language
English
Description
Despite what Dyamonde and Free say, Damaria worries that she is getting fat, until a classmate's problem with diabetes causes her to change her thoughts about body image.
13) Jazz baby
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Baby and his family make some jazzy music.
14) Flower girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Anna isn't happy when she learns that she will be a flower girl in Aunt Julie's wedding, until she looks at wedding photographs and tries on Grandma's veil.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front cover flap.
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Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much--and how little--has changed for Black Americans since our country's founding.
18) Love to Langston
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2c002
Language
English
Description
A series of poems written from the point of view of the poet Langston Hughes, offering an overview of key events and themes in his life.
19) Mousetropolis
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this update of the classic fable, City Mouse and his cousin, Country Mouse, exchange visits and, although they find many things to like in each other's homes, they quickly learn that each prefers his own.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Describes how an African slave, Toussaint L'Ouverture, lead his fellow slaves on the island of St. Domingue (now Haiti) to revolt against the white plantation owners to gain their freedom and influence the course of world history.