Riley, Rochelle
Summary: That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World features Riley's grandson, Caleb, and Lola photographed in timeless black and white, dressed as important individuals such as business owners, educators, civil rights leaders, and artists, alongside detailed biographies that begin with the figures as young children who had the same ambitions, fears, strengths, and obstacles facing them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RIL1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 RIL
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J810 RILSummary: This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018