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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture. Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy. It's a story of big ideas--P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments--G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures--H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
17) Sojourner Truth
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
A biography of the former slave who became an outspoken antislavery and women's rights activist in the United States.
18) Harriet Tubman
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of Harriet Tubman, who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyє́јfirst to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration...
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