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A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
Pub Date: Feb 1, 2012
Age Range: 12 - 18
Lewis Michaux provided a venue for his fellow African-Americans to have access to their own history and philosophy at a time when the very idea was revolutionary.
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Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years
Pub Date: Feb 1, 2012
Age Range: 11 - 14
Cogent and stirring, this very readable book focuses on the Jim Crow era, that period between 1896 and 1954, a shameful time in U.S. history framed by two landmark Supreme Court cases.
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The Adventures of Nat Love
Pub Date: Feb 1, 2012
Age Range: 10 - 18
On a train out of Denver in 1902, two old cowboys reminisce about the Old West.
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The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Pub Date: Feb 1, 2012
Age Range: 11 - 15
Triumph and tragedy in 1963 "Bombingham," as children and teens pick up the flagging Civil Rights movement and give it a swift kick in the pants.
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Pub Date: Jan 18, 2011
Age Range: 5 - 9
Powerfully expressive imagery will sweep young viewers into this suspenseful journey along the Underground Railroad.
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Artist, Poet, Slave
Pub Date: Sep 7, 2010
Age Range: 7 - 10
The enslaved 19th-century potter Dave, who lived and worked near Edgefield, S.C., could transform 60 pounds of clay into a 40-gallon pot.
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