Daniel Minter
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When they are given the seemingly impossible task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa. Includes information on Kwanzaa, West African cloth weaving, and instructions for making a belt.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cherishing the special broom resting above her hearth for its representation of the slave heritage that once forbade legal marriages, Ellen prepares for her parents' triumphant registry at a Reconstruction-era courthouse as lawful husband and wife and proudly carries the broom so that they can repeat a cultural wedding tradition.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"--