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Becoming Billie Holiday
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In ninety-seven poems using the titles from Billie Holiday's song list, the first twenty-five years of Billie Holiday's life are celebrated. It wasn't always an easy life and...
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Before John Was a Jazz Giant
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John Coltrane wasn't born playing jazz. No sirree. But, he was born into a wondrous world of a cacaphony of sound. There was the sound of...
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Birmingham, 1963
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It's 1963 and the Civil Rights movement has begun. A hopeful voice waits excitedly on her tenth birthday for her special moment. She's going to sing a...
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Birmingham, 1963
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Turning ten years old, this eager young voice has already experienced lunch counter sit-ins and the voice and power of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial....
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Dear Mr. Rosenwald
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In the rural South back in the early 1900's, schools for African American children were leaking, crumbling or non-existent. A man named Mr. Rosenwald, who just happened to...
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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins
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How do we teach our children today what it was like to be a young African American girl, Connie, in Greensboro, N.C. in the sixties? The voice...
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I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
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Matthew Henson didn't walk all the way from Washington, D.C to Baltimore just to "look at the ships at the dock." Henson's determination, courage, and willingness to seize...
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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
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Beginning in the cotton fields and a sickly childhood and moving to the racetracks of Ohio State University where he was not allowed to live in the dormitories, Jesse...
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
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When Harriet Tubman's master decided to sell her down south, she made up her mind to escape and find freedom. Born a slave, she had been working since...
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Obama: Only in America
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Out in the yard in Jakarta, Indonesia, Barry played with his pet monkey, "ate snake meat and roasted grasshoppers and learned to box" and was he dreaming that one...
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Oprah: The Little Speaker
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Clearly, God had a plan for a little girl born of a military man just passing through and a woman who went north and left her to her grandmother....
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Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion
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Wendell Scott was born in a hurry! At the age of 15 he bought a Model T and started to make it go faster. ...
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The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
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For those children born in the late nineties or after the year 2000, history is a bit different. We have an African-American president and the world of separate...
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