Navigating Black History Month
Happy New Year to all you book lovers out there! As we move in the space between Martin Luther King day and Black History Month, I would love to point you to some real gems available.
I have been on a personal quest to find books for my girls in Black History Month that introduce them to African American PEOPLE not just a cause. I think when kids connect with people, the "people's" cause matters a whole lot more! Also would like to plug the work of fiction I mentioned in a past blog titled The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson.
Because I found SSSOOOO many good picks I am offering you a list of titles and authors. Enjoy! Pls let me know what you think of these titles. I will continue my quest for these wonderful works!
The first set ( late elementary to early middle school) are books that took Civil Rights Heroes a bit more out of the cause and made them more human beings to me:
My Brother Martin: a sister remembers growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
by Christine King Farris
Coretta Scott King
by Kathleen Krull
Through My Eyes: the autobiography of Ruby Bridges
Edited by Margo Lundell
Schomburg The Man Who Built a Library
By Carole Boston Weatherford
This next set (later middle school through anyone who will read or listen) are by an AMAZING author named Tonya Bolden. If you know her work you are nodding your head in full agreement right now. Even better she offers must reads for adults too!
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass A Monumental American
Tonya Bolden
George Washington Carver
Tonya Bolden
Must Read for Adults: We are Not Yet Equal
Tonya Bolden