Black History Month Resources
All of the following books would be useful for students of junior high age and older:
Durham, Philip, and Everett L. Jones, The Adventures of the Negro Cowboys (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983; also, Bantam Books, 1969).
Haskins, Jim, Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions (New York, NY: Walker and Co., 1992).
Hine, Darlene Clark, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1993).
Hughes, Langston, Milton Meltzer, and C. Eric Lincoln, African-American History: Four Centuries of Black Life (New York: Scholastic Inc., 1990).
Katz, William Loren, Black People Who Made the Old West (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992).
Logan, Rayford W., and Michael R. WInston (eds.), Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983).
Love, Nat, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as Deadwood Dick, by Himself (Irvine, CA: Reprint Services Corp., 1991).
Miller, Robert H., Reflections of a Black Cowboy, Book One: Cowboys (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1991).
Miller, Robert H., Reflections of a Black Cowboy, Book Two: The Buffalo Soldiers (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1991).
Creative Fire, a volume in the three-part African Americans: Voices of Triumph series (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993).
Leadership, a volume in the three-part African Americans: Voices of Triumph series (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993).
Perseverance, a volume in the three-part African Americans: Voices of Triumph series (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993).
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March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
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March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
by Dr. Christine King Farris and London Ladd
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2009 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winner
From Dr. Martin Luther King's sister, the definitive tribute to the man, the march, and the speech that changed a nation.
On a hot August day in 1963, hundreds of thousands of people made history when they marched into Washington, D.C., in search of equality. Martin Luther King, Jr., the younger brother of Christine King Farris, was one of them.
Martin was scheduled to speak to the crowds of people on that day. But before he could stand up and inspire a nation, he had to get down to business. He first had to figure out what to say and how to say it. So he spent all night working on his "I Have a Dream" speech, one that would underscore a landmark moment in civil rights history -- the Great March on Washington. This would be one of the first events televised all over the globe. The world would be listening, as one of the greatest orators of our time shared his vision for a new day.
From the sister of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., comes this moving account of what that day was like for her, and for the man who inspired a crowd -- and convinced a nation to let freedom ring.
London Ladd's beautiful full-color illustrations bring to life the thousands of people from all over the country who came to the nation's capital. They sing, they join hands, they march, and they listen as speaker after speaker inspires social change, culminating in Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Belle Teal
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Belle Teal
Belle has a lot to worry about -- money, grandmother's senility, a snooty new classmate. And things get more confusing when she befriends one of her new African-American classmates, finding friendship more rewarding when it takes some work. Your child wil
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