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Nelson, MarilynNelson, Marilyn
Summary: The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 811 NELNelson, Marilyn
Summary: "A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SAVNelson, Marilyn
Summary: George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022