James Ransome
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Black History Month - Youth
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Black History Month - Youth
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
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Shares the story of the sisters and tennis stars, including their special relationship as sisters and best friends, their constant training as children, and their incredible success in professional tennis.
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English
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Black Authors: Youth Biographies (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - Youth
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Black History Month - Youth
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
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A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.
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"In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on"--
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English
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Black Authors: Youth Nonfiction (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - ROD Children's
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
Black History Month - ROD Children's
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
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"You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall. You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience. Featuring a dual narrative of the key moments of Dr. King's life alongside a modern class as the students learn about him, Carole Weatherfor's poetic text encapsulates the moments that readers today can reenact in their own lives. See a class of young students as they begin a school project inspired by...
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"The award winners behind Before She Was Harriet explore the story of the saxophone, from its beginnings in 1840s Belgium all the way to New Orleans, where an instrument in a pawn shop caught the eye of musician Sidney Bechet and became the iconic symbol it is today"--
9) Visiting day
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English
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A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
10) Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: taking the stage as the first black and white jazz band in history
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English
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Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Telling a People's Story
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Telling a People's Story
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Celebrates the first widely seen integrated jazz performance: the debut of the Benny Goodman quartet with Teddy Wilson in 1936 Chicago.
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English
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Black History Month Reads for Kids
Black Icons (kids)
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Resources for Young People
Black Icons (kids)
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Resources for Young People
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"Here is the remarkable true story of how former slave Isabella Baumfree transformed herself into the preacher and orator Sojourner Truth, as told by acclaimed author Ann Turner and award-winning illustrator James Ransome. An iconic figure of the abolitionist and women's rights movements, Sojourner Truth famously spoke out for equal rights roughly one hundred years before the civil rights movement. My Name Is Truth includes a detailed historical note,...
14) New red bike!
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English
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Tom enjoys the thrill of riding his brand new bicycle, and then shares it with a friend.
16) Satchel Paige
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Examines the life of the legendary baseball player, who was the first African-American to pitch in a Major League World Series.
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English
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Black Authors: Youth Biographies (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - ROD Children's
Black History Month - Youth
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Black History Month - ROD Children's
Black History Month - Youth
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
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"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Today and always...
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"The baseball legend, Joe DiMaggio's picture book biography"--
A tribute to the golden-era baseball star traces his upbringing as a fourth-generation Italian in San Francisco while describing the influences that the Depression, World War II and his proud father made on his history-making career. --Publisher's description.