Volume 16, Issue 8. 1985

Themes:

African Americans; literacy; slavery; Emancipation Proclamation; Civil War; Brown v. Board of Education; abolition; slaveocracy; segregation; African American Vernacular English (AAVE); stereotypes; plantation stories; Black writers; Black Experience; elitism; myth of Black inferiority

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Beryle Banfield, M. William Howard Jr., Judy Rogers, Kathleen E. Goodin, Alice Nash, Doris Seale, Susan Witzowaty, Emily Leinster, Doris Seale, Laura D. Brown, Christine Jenkins, Tracy Dalton, Betty Bacon

Materials Reviewed:

Paris, Pee Wee, and Big Dog by Rosa Guy. Amazon / WorldCat
The Runner by Cynthia Voight. Amazon / WorldCat
Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance by Ian Wallace. Amazon / WorldCat
In the Shadow of the Wind by Luke Wallin. Amazon / WorldCat
Smile Like a Plastic Daisy by Sonia Levitin. Amazon / WorldCat
It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World by Paula Danzinger. Amazon / WorldCat
Legend Days by Jamake Highwater. Amazon / WorldCat
Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers. Amazon / WorldCat
Life.Is.Not.Fair by Gary W. Bargar. Amazon / WorldCat
Voices from the Shadows: Women with Disabilities Speak Out by Gwyneth Ferguson Matthews. Amazon / WorldCat
The Fragile Flag by Jane Langton. Amazon / WorldCat
Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat. Amazon / WorldCat
Grandparents: A Special Kind of Love by Eda LeShan. Amazon / WorldCat
Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie by Jan Greenberg. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr.
An Album of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jeanne A. Rowe
Benjamin Franklin/Martin Luther King, Jr. by Stella H. Alico
In Search of Peace: The Story of Four Americans Who Won the Nobel Peace Prize by Roberta Strauss Feyerlicht
The Life and Death of Martin Luther King by James Haskins
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Beth P. Wilson
Martin Luther King by Rae Bains
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jacqueline Harris
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Man to Remember by Patricia McKissack
Martin Luther King, The Man Who Climbed the Mountain by Gary Paulsen and Dan Theis
Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior by Ed Clayton
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Story of a Dream by Judith Behrens
Martin Luther King, Jr. by James T. de Kay
Beyond Vietnam: A Prophecy for the 80's by Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert McAfee Brown, Vincent Harding, Anne Braden, and C. T. Vivian
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Documentary.... Montgomery to Memphis by Penelope McPhee
What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Larry Stevens
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Philosophy of Non-Violence by Larry Stevens
Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Life and Dream by Christine King Ferris
Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield
What Happened to Mr. Forster? by Gary W. Bargar
Images of Ourselves by Jo Campling
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Keywords:

African American, literacy, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, Brown v. Board of Education, abolition, Susie King Taylor, Linda Brent, Carrie Davis, Lydia Maria Child, slavocracy, segregation, Federal Writers' Project, Works Project Administration, research, William Adams, Jennie Bowen, Esther Casey, repression, Septima Clark, Freedman's Schools, G. W. Offley, Bible, Frederick Douglass, Methodist Sabbath School, Nat Turner, Quakers, Prudence Crandall, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), dialect, Black English, Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Charlemae Hill Rollins Colloquium, stereotypes, depictions, plantation stories, Black writers, Carter G. Woodson, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Associated Publishers, We Build Together - A Reader's Guide to Negro Life and Literature for Elementary and High School Use, book lists, bibliographies, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Charlemae Rollins, librarians, evaluation criteria, publishing, Walter Dean Myers, Kristin Hunter, Newberry Award, Margaret Musgrove, Leo Dillon, Dianne Dillon, Black Experience, racism, white supremacy, elitism, materialism, conformities, myth of Black inferiority, sexism, reluctant readers, Vietnamese, American Library Association (ALA), sports, romance, Spanish, Asian, cultural difference, subscription fee increase