A long time coming, a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama, Ray Anthony Shepard ; art by R. Gregory Christie
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A long time coming, a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama, Ray Anthony Shepard ; art by R. Gregory Christie
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-323) and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A long time coming
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Ray Anthony Shepard ; art by R. Gregory Christie
Sub title
a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
Summary
Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much - and how little - racism has changed since our country's foundingThis YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much--and how little--has changed for Black Americans since our country's founding
Target audience
adolescent
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Subject
- Biographical poetry
- Young adult literature
- Poetry
- Creative nonfiction
- Racism -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- Race relations
- Racism
- United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans + History -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans + Violence against -- Juvenile literature
- Young adult literature
- Prose poems
Content
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Illustrator
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject12
- Biographical poetry
- Young adult literature
- Poetry
- Creative nonfiction
- Racism -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- United States -- Race relations
- Racism
- United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans + History -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans + Violence against -- Juvenile literature
- Young adult literature
- Prose poems
- Content2
- Author1
- Illustrator1