Ellington Was Not a Street
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004.
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Featuring luminous art by Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson, this reflective picture book by poet Ntozake Shange looks back at the great Black thinkers and innovators who visited her father's house.
A close-knit group of Black innovators formed their own community in the early to mid-twentieth century. These men of vision lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live, what schools they could attend, and even where they could sit on a bus or in a movie theater.
Yet in the face of this tremendous adversity, these dedicated souls and others like them not only demonstrated the importance of Black culture in America, but also helped issue in a movement that changed the world. Their lives and their works inspire us to this day and serve as a guide to how we approach the challenges of tomorrow.
A close-knit group of Black innovators formed their own community in the early to mid-twentieth century. These men of vision lived at a time when the color of their skin dictated where they could live, what schools they could attend, and even where they could sit on a bus or in a movie theater.
Yet in the face of this tremendous adversity, these dedicated souls and others like them not only demonstrated the importance of Black culture in America, but also helped issue in a movement that changed the world. Their lives and their works inspire us to this day and serve as a guide to how we approach the challenges of tomorrow.
Subjects:
African American civil rights workers -- Juvenile poetry.
African American artists -- Juvenile poetry.
African American girls -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.
African American civil rights workers -- Juvenile poetry.
African American artists -- Juvenile poetry.
African American girls -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.
Target Audience: NP
ISBN:
0689828845
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 5/23/2024) |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Main (Downtown) | Display - Third Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Sha | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Ballentine Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Blythewood | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Sha | Edgewood | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Sha | Southeast | Children's NonFiction | In |
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner, 2005.