xvii, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm
Target Audience Note:
010+ Grades 4-6
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Foreword / by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson Miracle child / by Sharon M. Draper Coloring outside the lines / by Jerdine Nolen James Baldwin's great debate / by Wade Hudson Black lives have always mattered / by Wade Hudson Famous blerds in history / by Keith Knight Hank Aaron passes on the legacy / by Wade Hudson The storms and sunshine of my life / by Lamar Giles At our kitchen table / by Lesa Cline-Ransome Isn't it obvious? / by Nic Stone The slave mother / by Frances Ellen Harper Watkins Joy lives in you / by Kelly Starling Lyons Witness / by Nikki Grimes You are ... / by Denene Mackell Excerpt from What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / by Frederick Douglass Black boy reading / by Ronald L. Smith Self-reflection / by Kwame Mbalia Black butterfly / by Paula Chase The treatment of the Little Rock Nine, Central High School, 1957 / by Daisy Bates Darnella Frazier, eyewitness / by Carole Boston Weatherford How to be an activist / by Don Tate My hero is a Black cowboy / by Robert H. Miller Drumbeat, ring shout, roll call, cypher / by Ibi Zoboi An interview with DeRay Mckesson Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune's last will and testament / by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson Claiming my space / by Adedayo Perkovich Freedom in music / by Curtis Hudson Back to myself / by Tiffany Jewell Recognize! / by Cheryl Willis Hudson The devil in the flowers / by Alicia D. Williams Your breath is a song / by Mahogany L. Browne Artist notes Biographies Contributors About the Black Lives Matter movement
