Volume 19, Issue 3/4. 1989

Themes:

African Americans; Emancipation Proclamation; Civil War; Brown v. Board of Education; abolition; slaveocracy; African American Vernacular English (AAVE); Black Experience; racism; white supremacy; elitism; materialism; conformatism; myth of Black inferiority

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Cecelia McCall, Jean St. Clair, Babette Brown, Walter Dean Myers, Barbara Sommers, Patricia B. Campbell, Gerald Horne, Christine Jenkins, Albert V. Schwartz, Fadhilika Atiba-Weza

Materials Reviewed:

The Train to Lulu's by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard. Amazon / WorldCat
The Latchkey Kids by Susan Terris. Amazon / WorldCat
Up with Hope: A Biography of Jesse Jackson by Dorothy Chaplik. Amazon / WorldCat
The Saddest Time by Norma Simon. Amazon / WorldCat
Eat Up, Gemma by Sarah Hayes. Amazon / WorldCat
Children and Books by Zena Sutherland and Mary Hill Arbuthnot. Amazon / WorldCat
Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen. Amazon / WorldCat
Africa in Crisis: The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy by Lloyd Timberlake. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

An Appeal in Favor of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child
ABC's of Great Negroes by Charles C. Dawson
Child Story of the Negro by Jane Shackleford
My Happy Days by Jane Shackleford
To Be by Stella Sharpe
Famous American Negro Poets by Charlemae Rollins
Famous Entertainers of Stage, Screen and TV by Charlemae Rollins
They Showed the Way by Charlemae Rollins
Forty American Negro Leaders by Charlemae Rollins
The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou by Kristin Hunter
Where Does the Day Go? by Walter Dean Myers
Side Walk Story by Sharon Bell Mathis
Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
The Accident by Carol Carrick
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Columbus, Finder of the New World by Robert Syme
Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan
The Bird at Bear Mountain by Janet Lind
The Smallest Cow in the World by Katherine Paterson
The Godmother Tree by Ruth Wallace-Brodeur
Kramer Vs Kramer by Avery Corman
Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by By Maya Angelou
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
One More Time by Carol Burnett
Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
Time Flies by Bill Cosby
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Can't Wait for Summer by Theresa Sanservino

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, conformatism, myth of Black inferiority, sexism, reluctant readers, Vietnamese, American Library Association (ALA), sports, romance, Spanish, Asian, cultural difference, Vermont Migrant Education Program, immigration, hi-lo, Writers Voices, Literacy Volunteers of New York City, Views and Reviews