Xia Gordon
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Black Authors: Poetry (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month - ROD Children's
K&T - Black History Month
K&T Celebrates Black History Month
Black History Month - ROD Children's
K&T - Black History Month
K&T Celebrates Black History Month
Description
A collection of poems profiles the Chicago author who gave voice to the urban African American experience in the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Empowering and educational, this nonfiction picture book about James Weldon Johnson, an NAACP leader who wrote the uplifting poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing," shows how he led thousands of Black people in the Silent Protest Parade for civil rights down New York's Fifth Avenue.