The ABCs of Black History
The ABCs of Black History
Brief 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...
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Brief Description: Biographical Note: Rio Cortez is a writer and Pushcart-nominated poet who has received fellowships from Poet's House, Cave Canem, and CantoMundo foundations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Rio writes and lives in Harlem where she works as a bookseller and buyer for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Lauren Semmer is an artist, children's book illustrator, and designer. She studied drawing at St. Paul College of Visual Arts and art history at New York University. Lauren's bright and charming work is featured on everything from kid's wall art to children's apparel. She lives in Manhattan with her family. Table of Contents: The ABCs of Black History: Terms and Figures James Baldwin A is for Anthem Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson John Rosamond Johnson NAACP B is for Beautiful, Brave, Bright, Bold, Brotherhood, Believing "Black is beautiful" Kwame Brathwaite Soul Train Don Cornelius C is for Community, Church, Civil Rights Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church D is for Diaspora African Diaspora slave trade Senegal Gambia Guinea-Bissau Mali Angola Congo the Democrative Republic of Congo Gabon Nigeria the Ivory Coast Ghana Sudan Cameroon E is for Explore, Education, Expanding the mind literacy segregation Linda Brown and Brown v. Board of Education Ruby Bridges Little Rock Nine Matthew Henson Mae Jemison F is for Food, Farmed, Fried Fish, Folklore, Family, Freedom Emancipation Proclamation sharecroppers soul food "jumping the broom" G is for Go!, Great Migration Black Codes blues music H is for Harlem, Heart, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston W.E.B. Du Bois Alain Locke Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson Jean Toomer Arna Bontemps Countee Cullen Claude McKay Duke Ellington Bessie Smith Louis Armstrong Ethel Waters Bill "Bojangles" Robinson "Ma" Rainey Eubie Blake Apollo Theater Paul Robeson Marcus Garvey Arthur Schomburg Henry O. Tanner James Van Der Zee Aaron Douglass Augusta Savage Lillian Harris Dean (Pig Foot Mary) I is for Imagine, Invent, Innovative George Washington Carver Madame C.J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove) Gwendolyn Brooks Alvin Ailey DJ Kool Herc Jean-Michel Basquiat J is for Joy, Juneteenth, J'Ouvert Morning Carnival Trinidad Canboulay K is for Kin, Kwanzaa Dr. Maulana Karenga Kwanzaa principles: Umoja Kujichagulia Ujima Ujamaa Nia Kuumba Imani kinara Kiswahili L is for Love Rose and Ashley / Ashley's sack (Rose was Ashley's mother and they were both enslaved. When Ashley was sold at the age of 9, her mother gave her a sack that held the scraps of a dress, handfuls of pecans, and a braid of Rose's hair. They never saw each other again, but the sack has survived generations.) Nat Love Mildred Loving Marsha "Pay It No Mind" Johnson M is for March, Matter March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963) "I Have a Dream" speech Bloody Sunday March from Selma to Montgomery John Lewis "We Shall Overcome" "Wade in the Water" "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" Ahmaud Arbery Breonna Taylor George Floyd Black Lives Matter Patrisse Kahn-Cullors Alicia Garza Opal Tometi N is for Newspapers abolitionist movement The North Star Frederick Douglass Chicago Defender Pittsburgh Courier Richmond Planet Chicago Bee Johnson Publishing Company John H. Johnson Negro Digest Jet Ebony O is for Organize Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Freedom Summer Freedom Rides Diane Nash Fred Hampton Ella Baker Southern Christian Leadership Conference P is for Power, Panther, People, Power, President, Possible "Black Power" Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Black Panther Party Bobby Seale Huey P. Newton Thurgood Marshall Shirley Chisholm Barack Obama Q is for Queens Queen Nefertiti, ancient Egyptian queen Queen Amina, mid-16th century queen, present-day Nigeria Queen Nandi Ndlovukazi kaBhebe, 18th century queen of the Zulu in what is now South Africa Queen Yaa Asantewaa, 19th century Ashanti Queen, present-day Ghana Ruby Hurley, "queen of Civil Rights" Ida B. Wells Leontyne Price Toni Morrison Michelle Obama Toni Morrison R is for Rise, Relentlessly striving, Refusing to stop Rube Foster, Negro Leagues Jesse Owens Jackie Robinson Althea Gibson Muhammad Ali Arthur Ashe Florence Griffith Joyner Shani Davis Gabby Douglas S is for Scientists, Stars, Study, Soul, Sweet, Sound Charles H. Turner Daniel Hale Williams Vivien Thomas Benjamin Banneker Patricia Bath Katherine Johnson Kizzmekia Corbett Ray Charles Aretha Franklin Sam Cooke James Brown Sister Rosetta Tharpe T is for Tuskegee, Trades, Toiled, Tools, Booker T., True Tuskegee Institute Tuskegee Airmen Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois U is for United States, Unbroken, Unshaken, Unbound, Underground Railroad, Unfinished U.S. Constitution 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment The Civil War African-American Flag David Hammons Harriet Tubman the Underground Railroad V is for Vote Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom Summer W is for Writers, Wisdom, Words, Worlds Arthur Schomburg Negro Society for Historical Research Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture X is for Malcolm X Y is for Young, Gifted and Black, You Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" Nina Simone Z is for Zenith Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Mountaintop Speech" Publisher Marketing: In this New York Times bestseller that takes a bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture, B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! 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 Malcom X. It's an ABC book like no other, and a story of hope and love. In addition to rhyming text that is perfect to read aloud, the book includes information on the events, places, and people mentioned in the poem, from Mae Jemison to W.E.B. Du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer to Sam Cooke, and the Little Rock Nine to DJ Kool Herc. Don't miss the follow-up from the same creative team: The ABCs of Women's History! Review Citations:
Contributor Bio:Cortez, Rio Contributor Bio:Semmer, Lauren Lauren Semmer is an artist, children's book illustrator, and designer. She studied drawing at St. Paul College of Visual Arts and art history at New York University. Lauren's bright and charming work is featured on everything from kid's wall art to children's apparel. She lives in Manhattan with her family. |
Author: Cortez, Rio
Publisher: Workman Kids
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 2020-12-08
BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction / African American & Black / General|Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / Alphabet|Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional|Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States - General|Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Prejudice, Racism & Colorism
Subjects: African Americans|History|Alphabet books|Alphabet
Weight: 1.18 lbs
ISBN: 9781523507498
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781523507498
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