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SELECTED RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN, MEXICAN AMERICAN, AND PUERTO RICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTUREThis beginning list of resources is not meant to be a formal bibliography. These books, articles, and some multi-media refer mainly to African and African Americans with some references related to the heritage of Puerto Rican and Mexican people. These books were chosen for their uniqueness and attractiveness. Most have rich texts mixed with abundant pictures, photographs, and illustrations that make them engaging for students of many grade levels and highly accessible for research and reference. Teachers use them in various ways for enhancement of traditional curriculum units. LARGE FORMAT BOOKS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFEThese are rich resources for pictures to use as writing prompts, in student reports and to enhance units in all areas. 12 Million Black Voices
by Richard Wright The African Americans: A Celebration of Achievement The Black Book by Middleton Harris Black: A Celebration of a Culture by Deborah Willis Face Forward: Young African American Men in a Critical Age by Julian C. R. Okwu Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa by Chester Higgins Jr. One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album Passages: Photographs in Africa by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers
by Keith Michael Brown Songs of My People: African Americans: A Self-Portrait
edited by Eric Easter and Dudley M. Brooks Photographs by J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere Voices from Within: Photographs of African Children
by A. Olusegun Fayemi AFRICAN HISTORY 15TH TO 19TH CENTURYNzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 (The Royal Diaries) Ancient African Town by Fiona MacDonald and Gerald Wood Mansa Musa: The Lion of Maliby Khephra Burns, Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa Ghana Mali Songhay: The Western Sudan (African Kingdoms of the Past) The Kingdoms of Africa by Philip Koslow AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — GENERALBlack Heritage: Volume One 1700s to the Early 1900s De Nyew Testament (The New Testament in Gullah) by The Sea Island Translation Team in cooperation with the Wycliff Bible Translation Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence Historic Speeches of African Americans introduced and selected by Warren J. Halliburton Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40 Paintings by Jacob Lawrence, edited by Ellen Harkins Wheat World's Great Men of Color Volumes 1 and 2 by J.A. Rogers THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTThe Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 by Steven Kasher Free At Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle by Sara Bullard Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories I Have a Dream: An Illustrated Edition by Martin Luther King, Jr. Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, and Jenice L. View Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals |
"This eloquent photo essay, built around hundreds of black-and-white photographs (many from the author's own collection) tells an extraordinary history; a dramatic spread with photos of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois is followed by images of a school band and friends taking a swim; scenes from the Great Migration give way to portraits of the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. For readers young and old. Ages 9-12." — Publishers Weekly "…elegant pictures…are less anthropological field studies than records of an astonishingly varied and sophisticated species of abstract sculpture." — Holland Cotter, The New York Times "Like Bernie Fuchs's illustrations for Ragtime Tumpie, Cooper's painterly, sun-drenched portraits for this collection are as rich and varied as the verses themselves. " — Publishers Weekly ![]() |
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