Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1911, three men were in the final round of the famed Pendleton Round-Up. One was white, one was Indian, and one was black. When the judges declared the white man the winner, the audience was outraged. They named black cowboy George Fletcher the "people's champion" and took up a collection, ultimately giving Fletcher far more than the value of the prize that went to the official winner. Award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson tells the story...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller
"You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You do you'll break your leg. How can you walk straight in a crooked system?"
Lewis Michaux was born to do things his own way. When a white banker told him to sell fried chicken, not books, because "Negroes don't read," Lewis took five books and one hundred dollars and built a bookstore. It soon became the intellectual center
...Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.
9) Juneteenth
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Description
June 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Freedom! Slavery had ended! The Civil War had actually ended in April. It took two months for word to reach Texas. Still the joy of that amazing day has never been forgotten. Every year, people all over the United States come together on June 19th to celebrate the end...