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Tallahassee, FL 32301  
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Black History Month

Reading... LIBRARY LIST - NCTE LISTS:   ADULTS  - YOUTH & CHILDREN
 

LINKS

2008 National Black History Theme

Books on Civil Rights
[School-Age Readers]

-- Archer, Jules [for 3rd-8th Grade]
They had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King to Malcom X 

-- Bridges, Ruby [for K-5th Grade]

Through My Eyes 

-- Bullard, Sara  [for 6th-12th Grade]
Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle 

-- Hampton, Henry, et al  [for 9th-12th Grade]
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s 

-- McKissack, Pat  [for 3rd-8th Grade]
The Civil rights Movement in American from 1865 to the Present 

-- Parks, Rosa  [for 3rd-5th Grade]
Rosa Parks: My Story

-- Pinkney, Andrea Davis  [for 6th-12th Grade]
Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters 

-- Rappaport, Doreen  [for K-5th Grade]
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  [also available on DVD].

featuring CHARLES W. CHESNUTT

2008 Black History Month Commemorative StampStories, novels, & essays by Charles W. Chesnutt

  • The conjure woman

  • The wife of his youth and other stories of the color line

  • The house behind the cedars

  • The marrow of tradition

  • Uncollected stories

  • Selected essays

The marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt, [on audio-cassette, read by Michael Collins]
A landmark in the history of African-American fiction, this gripping 1901 novel was among the first literary challenges to racial stereotypes. Its tragic history of 2 families unfolds against the backdrop of the post-Reconstruction South and climaxes with a race riot based on an actual 1898 incident.

The quarry by Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited with introduction and notes by Dean McWilliams.

The journals of Charles W. Chesnutt, Richard H. Brodhead, editor.

The conjure woman, and other conjure tales by Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited and with an introduction by Richard H. Brodhead.

on NetLibrary
Selections: Charles W. Chesnutt essays and speeches edited by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz III, Jesse S. Crisler.
 


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