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Tell All
the Children Our Story:
Memories and Mementoes of Being Young and Black in America
By Tonya Bolden
127 illustrations, 52 in full color, 128 pages, 8 1/2 x 10" ISBN 0-8109-4496-0 US$24.95
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In a warm,
personal voice, Tonya Bolden explores what it has meant to be young and
black in America. From the first recorded birth of a black child in
Jamestown, through the Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the
fight for civil rights, right on up to our own time, Bolden brings to light
how black children have worked and played, suffered and rejoiced. She covers
a range of lifestyles, social classes, attitudes, and perceptions to portray
children in ever-evolving states of life. Both unknown and celebrated
children are included, from those remembered only from advertisements for
the slave trade to those who would grow up to shape and make history,
including Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Banneker, Sadie and Bessie Delany,
Charles Johnson, and basketball legends Paula and Pamela McGee. This important book, the first trade book of its kind, draws on a wealth of primary sources, including interviews, diaries, news articles, and historical documents, and is generously illustrated with paintings, photographs, posters, and other ephemera. |
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