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The African-American Struggle for Legal Equality in American History

Traces the African American struggle, from slavery to the present, to overcome racism and racist laws thereby becoming constitutionally and legally equal to other American citizens. (view table of contents)

By Carole Boston Weatherford

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Library:

9780766014152 | Enslow Pub Inc, October 1, 2000, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: Traces the African American battle over racism, from slavery to the present, to become constitutionally and legally equal to other American citizens.

The Carolina Parakeet: America's Lost Parrot in Art And Memory

By Carole Boston Weatherford

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Paperback:

9780910335010 | Avian Pubns, January 30, 2006, cover price $14.95

Celebremos Juneteenth

Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it does not feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery.

By Yvonne Buchanan (illustrator), Eida De LA Vega (trans) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Paperback:

9781600602474 | Lee & Low Books, August 30, 2007, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it does not feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery.

Champions on the Bench: The Cannon Street YMCA All-stars

Set in South Carolina in 1955 during the era of segregation, a young boy recounts what life was like when he joined an all-black YMCA baseball team and ended up having no one to play against when all the other 55 white-only teams refused to take part in the Little League tournament simply due to the color of their competitors' skin.

By Leonard Jenkins (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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School and Library:

9780803729872 | Dial Books for Young Readers, December 28, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Story based on the discrimination faced by the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Stars when the white teams refused to play them in the series tournament.

Dear Mr. Rosenwald

Based on a true story, a young girl dreams about the great opportunities she will have when the new Rosenwald School, an institution built on money donated from the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., is finally built in her community in the rural South.

By R. Gregory Christie (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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School and Library:

9780439495226 | Scholastic, September 1, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Young Ovella rejoices as her community comes together to raise money and build a much-needed school in the 1920s, with matching funds from the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and support from Professor James of the Normal School.

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins

Having always lived a life where they couldn't drink from the white fountains or swim at the local pools, a group of four teens decides to fight the system in the segregated South of the 1960s by taking seats at a lunch counter and requesting to be served--just the same and equal as every white person in the establishment. Reprint.

By Jerome Lagarrigue (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780142408940 | Reprint edition (Puffin, December 27, 2007), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Having always lived a life where they couldn't drink from the white fountains or swim at the local pools, a group of four teens decides to fight the system in the segregated South of the 1960s by taking seats at a lunch counter and requesting to be served--just the same and equal as every white person in the establishment.

School and Library:

9780803728608 | Dial Books for Young Readers, December 29, 2004, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.

Prebinding:

9781442000018 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.99

9781417787180 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2007, cover price $16.00

Grandma and Me

Describes the things that a grandmother and young child do together

By Michelle Mills (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9780863162527 | Board book edition (Black Butterfly Children, September 1, 1997), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Describes the things that a grandmother and young child do together

Great African-American Lawyers: Raising the Bar of Freedom

Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Benjamin Lawson Hooks, L. Douglas Wilder, Barbara Jordan, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun.Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Johnnie Cochran, Marian Wright Edelman, and Carol Moseley-Braun.

By Carole Boston Weatherford

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9780766018372 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $27.94 | About this edition: Ten biographies of African American lawyers, including Charles Hamilton Houston, William Henry Hastie, Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, Benjamin Lawson Hooks, L.

I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer

Beautiful pastel illustrations, combined with lyrical text, capture the sheer determination and extraordinary accomplishments of the first African American explorer to reach the North Pole.

By Eric Velasquez and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9780802796882 | Walker & Co, December 26, 2007, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Beautiful pastel illustrations, combined with lyrical text, capture the sheer determination and extraordinary accomplishments of the first African American explorer to reach the North Pole.

Jazz Baby

A group of children move and play, hum and sleep to a jazz beat.

By Laura Freeman (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9781584302735 | New edition (Gardners Books, July 13, 2006), cover price $8.05

School and Library:

9781584300397 | Lee & Low Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A group of children move and play, hum and sleep to a jazz beat.

Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive

This inspirational biography of an African-American track star, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin--where Hitler was determined to prove that Aryans were the superior race, details the challenges he overcame to realize his dreams--and prove a Nazi dictator wrong.

By Eric Velasquez (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9780802795502 | Walker & Co, December 26, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents the life and accomplishments of Jesse Owens, an African American track and field star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, and dashed Hitler's hopes for an Aryan domination of the Games.

Library:

9780802795519 | Walker & Co, December 26, 2006, cover price $17.85 | About this edition: Presents the life and accomplishments of Jesse Owens, an African American track and field star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, and dashed Hitler's hopes for an Aryan domination of the Games.

Juneteenth Jamboree

Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it doesn't feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery

By Yvonne Buchanan (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Paperback:

9781600602481 | Lee & Low Books, August 30, 2007, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it doesn't feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery

School and Library:

9781880000182 | Lee & Low Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it doesn't feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery

Me and the Family Tree

When she looks into a mirror, a young girl can see how she resembles various family members, as well as how she is unique

By Michelle Mills (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9780863162510 | Board book edition (Writers & Readers, September 1, 1997), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: When she looks into a mirror, a young girl can see how she resembles various family members, as well as how she is unique

Mighty Menfolk

An African American child describes the good qualities of the men in her community and in her family.

By Michelle Mills (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9780863162534 | Board book edition (Black Butterfly Children, September 1, 1997), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: An African American child describes the good qualities of the men in her community and in her family.

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Follows Harriet Tubman's spiritual journey to freedom as she, leaving her family behind, escaped from slavery and helped many others break free from forced servitude via the Underground Railroad, in this inspirational picture book filled with paintings that depict strength, hope, and healing. Teacher's Guide available.

By Kadir Nelson (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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School and Library:

9780786851751 | Jump at the Sun, September 1, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude.

A Negro League Scrapbook

Lively verse, fascinating facts, and archival photographs celebrate the Negro Leagues and the great players who went unrecognized in their time, such as Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and James Bell.

By Buck O'Neil (foreword by) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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School and Library:

9781590780916 | Boyds Mills Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents the history of the Negro baseball leagues with facts, photographs, and discussions of the lives of some of its greatest players, such as Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and James Bell.

Princeville: The 500-Year Flood

In 1999, Jimmy, Lavada, their mother, and other residents of the tiny town of Princeville, North Carolina, struggle to make a new start after the terrible floods caused by Hurricane Floyd.

By Douglas Alvord (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9781928556329 | Coastal Carolina Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1999, Jimmy, Lavada, their mother, and other residents of the tiny town of Princeville, North Carolina, struggle to make a new start after the terrible floods caused by Hurricane Floyd.

Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People

Enhanced with period photos, a collection offers young readers twenty-nine poems that capture African Americans's struggles throughout the past 400 years, through the times of slavery and beyond.

By Archival Photographs (photographer) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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School and Library:

9780399237263 | Philomel Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Poems celebrate African American culture and history.

Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City

Pays tribute to the sights and sounds of urban life through twenty fresh and rhythmic poems about the shoeshine man, the basketball court, the barber, the outdoor market, the laundromat, the storefront churches, and more. (view table of contents)

By Dimitrea Tokunbo (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9780070212084, titled "Dermatology in General Medicine" | 4th edition (McGraw-Hill Book Co, March 1, 1993), cover price $325.00 | also contains Dermatology in General Medicine | About this edition: This text-reference for dermatology - is now even better!

School and Library:

9781563970849 | 1 edition (Wordsong, August 1, 2001), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Twenty poems discuss the shoeshine man, the basketball court, the barber, the outdoor market, the laundromat, the storefront church, and other sights and sounds of urban life.

Sidwalk Chalk: Poems of the City

By Dimitrea Tokunbo (illustrator) and Carole Boston Weatherford

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Paperback:

9781590784150, titled "Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City" | Reprint edition (Wordsong, March 25, 2006), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Twenty poems discuss the shoeshine man, the basketball court, the barber, the outdoor market, the laundromat, the storefront church, and other sights and sounds of urban life.

Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks

Tells the story of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, which was the precursor of the Coast Guard, and its only all black crew, operating off Pea Island on the North Carolina coast, led by Richard Etheridge.

By Carole Boston Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9781928556015 | Coastal Carolina Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of the U.

Paperback:

9781928556039 | 2 edition (Coastal Carolina Pr, June 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of the U.

Somebody's Knocking at Your Door: AIDS And the African-american Church

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By Carole Boston Weatherford and Ronald Jeffrey Weatherford

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Hardcover:

9780789005748 | Routledge, April 1, 1999, cover price $200.00

Paperback:

9780789005755 | Routledge, December 1, 1998, cover price $67.95

The Sound That Jazz Makes

An illustrated history of the origins and influences of jazz, from Africa to contemporary America.

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Hardcover:

9780802787200 | Walker & Co, June 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An illustrated history of the origins and influences of jazz, from Africa to contemporary America.

Paperback:

9780761457329 | Reprint edition (Amazon Childrens Pub, November 1, 2010), cover price $7.99

9780802776747 | Reprint edition (Walker & Co, December 1, 2003), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An illustrated history of the origins and influences of jazz traces its roots from African forests to wooden slave ships to contemporary Harlem nightclubs.

Library:

9780802787217 | Walker & Co, June 1, 2000, cover price $17.85 | About this edition: An illustrated history of the origins and influences of jazz, from Africa to contemporary America.

Reinforced:

9780606294621 | Demco Media, November 1, 2003, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: A symphony of sound and color, The Sound That Jazz Makes is an eloquently rendered celebration of a remarkable heritage.

Voice of Freedom

Product Description: Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnsonâs interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats...read more

By Carole Boston Weatherford

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781520016740 | Dreamscape Media Llc, June 21, 2016, cover price $38.99 | About this edition: Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977.

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