African American Literature Night Why African American Literature

African American Literature Night

Why African American Literature? • “If we could see each other exactly as the other is, this would be a different world. ” -Ezra Jack Keats Author of The Snowy Day

Why African American Literature? • African American Heroes • Inspirational Quotes • African American Book List

Book Talk The Snowy Day • In this Caldecott Award-winning book, a small boy named Peter experiences the joy of a snowy day. First published in 1962, this now-classic book broke the color barrier in mainstream children’s publishing. • New York Public Library’s 150 most influential books of the 20 th century http: //www. ezra-jack-keats. org/ezras-books/the-snowy-day/

Book Talk Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Book Talk Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Story of the Logan family and how the children cope with the differences between how white children and black children are treated in the Jim Crow South of the Great Depression. http: //www. scholastic. com/teachers/book/roll-thunder-hear-my-cry#cart/cleanup

Book Talk Elijah of Buxton • The first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit, Elijah is best known in his hometown as the boy who threw up on Frederick Douglass. (Not on purpose, of course — he was just a baby then!) • But things change when a former slave calling himself the Right Reverend Zephariah W. Connerly the Third steals money from Elijah's friend Mr. Leroy, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the south. Elijah joins Mr. Leroy on a dangerous journey to America in pursuit of the disreputable preacher, and he discovers firsthand the unimaginable horrors of the life his parents fled — a life from which he'll always be free, if he can find the courage to go back home. . http: //www. scholastic. com/browse/book. jsp? id=4743

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