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African American women lawyers American poetry 21st century American poetry African American authors Women authors Grandparent and child Picture books POETRY / American / African American & Black POETRY / American / General POETRY / Women Authors Roundtree, Dovey Johnson 1914-2018 Family Women BiographyAsim, Jabari
Summary: Complemented by black-and-white photos, a young readers' adaptation of the acclaimed memoir by the late civil rights activist recounts her upbringing in Jim Crow-era North Carolina and her fight for equality and justice in America's military environments,churches and courtrooms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROUMoses
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSES, GRANDMA MOSRoundtree, Dovey Johnson
Summary: The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author's boundary-breaking career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROUDove, Rita
Summary: "A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021