Volume 16, Issue 7. 1985

Themes:

Women's History; Civil Rights; Black Experience; folktales; self-esteem; racism; Eurocentrism; colonialism

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Molly Murphy MacGregor, Terry L. Baker, Frances Hesselbein, Beryle Banfield, Walter Dean Myers, Tom Feelings, Mildred T. Taylor, Angela R. Simpson, Lyla Hoffman, Sylvia Stalker, Geraldine L. Wilson, Leonore Gordon, Emily Leinster, Christine Jenkins, Tracy Dalton, Alice N. Nash, Tracy Dalton, Susan Wizowaty, Janice C. Warner, Richard O. Ulin, Emily Strauss Watson, Doris Seale

Materials Reviewed:

Strikemakers and Strikebreakers by Sidney Lens. Amazon / WorldCat
I Know How You Feel Because This Happened to Me: A Handbook for Kids with a Parent in Prison by Louise Rosenkrantz. Amazon / WorldCat
Revolution in Central America by Glenn Alan Cheney. Amazon / WorldCat
Brown Spices ABC Book: A Great Coloring Book for Boys and Girls!! by Annie and Julee. Amazon / WorldCat
The Secret Worry by Elissa P. Benedek. Amazon / WorldCat
Town and Country by Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen. Amazon / WorldCat
Zan Hagen's Marathon by R.R. Knudson. Amazon / WorldCat
Women Astronauts Aboard the Space Shuttle by Mary Virginia Fox. Amazon / WorldCat
The Serpent's Children by Laurence Yep. Amazon / WorldCat
Sally Ride, America's First Woman in Space by Carolyn Blacknall. Amazon / WorldCat
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 by Linda Atkinson. Amazon / WorldCat
American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz. Amazon / WorldCat
Does Khaki Become You? The Militarization of Women's Lives by Cynthia Enloe. Amazon / WorldCat
The South African Churches in a Revolutionary Situation by Marjorie Hope and James Young. Amazon / WorldCat
The Use and Abuse of History or How the Past Is Taught by Marc Ferro. Amazon / WorldCat
Disability in Modern Children's Literature by John Quicke. Amazon / WorldCat
Love Medicine by Louise Erdich. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

100 Years of Negro Freedom by Arna Bontemps
Black Power U.S.A. The Human Side of Reconstruction 1867-1877 by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
The Adventures of Spider by Joyce Arkhurst
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
The Dancing Granny by Ashley Bryan
The Days When the Animals Talked
Black American Folktales and How They Came to Be by William J. Faulkner
The Knee-High Man and Other Tales by Julius Lester
The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales by Ashley Bryan
The Third Gift by Jan Carew
Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield
Black Child by Peter Magubane
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel Feelings
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Muriel Feelings
Playtime in Africa by Efua Sutherland
Booker T. Washington: Educator of Hand, Head and Heart by Shirley Graham
Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir by Eloise Greenfield, Lessie Jones Little, and Pattie Ridley Jones
Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story by Louis Meriwether
Fannie Lou Hamer by June Jordan
Frederick Douglass: Slave-Fighter-Freeman by Arna Bontemps
The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls by Louise Meriwether
Great Gittin' Up Morning by John O. Killens
Great Negroes Past and Present by Russell Adams
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
The Heart Man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams by Louise Meriwether
James Weldon Johnson by Ophelia Settle Egypt
Jean Baptiste Pointe De Sable, Founder of Chicago by Shirley Graham
Langston Hughes, American Poet by Alice Walker
Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers by Jesse Jackson
Pioneers in Protest by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Ray Charles by Sharon Bell Mathis
Somebody's Angel Child: The Story of Bessie Smith by Carmen Moore
The Story of Phillis Wheatley by Shirley Graham
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography by Virginia Hamilton
Abby by Jeannette Franklin Caines
Cornrows by Camille Yarbrough
Darlene by Eloise Greenfield
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
The House of Dies Drear! by Virginia Hamilton
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
Listen for the Fig Tree by Sharon Bell Mathis
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Shawn Goes to School by Petronella Breinburg
She Comes Bringing Me That Little Baby Girl by Eloise Greenfield
Song of the Trees by Mildred D. Taylor
Stevie by John Steptoe
Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry
Where Does the Day Go? by Walter Dean Myers
Window Wishing by Jeannette Caines
Zeely by Virginia Hamilton
American Negro Poetry by Arna Bontemps ed.
Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks
Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson
Golden Slippers by Arna Bontemps
Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield
I Greet the Dawn by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Lost Zoo by Countee Cullen and Christopher Cat
Who Look At Me by June Jordan
Black Focus on Multicultural Education by Beryle Banfield
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove
Black Fairy Tales by Terry Berger
Black Mother Goose by Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
Color Me Brown by Lucille Giles
I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black American by Arnold Adoff ed.
Shining Legacy by Nkechi Taifa
Your History by J. A. Rogers
Black Child Care by Alvin Poussaint
Here Comes Niya by Darla Davenport-Powell

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