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A long time coming : a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama

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2023

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Title:	A long time coming : a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
Author:	Shepard, Ray Anthony, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2023] ©2023
Description:	333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 founding.
Subjects:	African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. African Americans -- Violence against -- Juvenile literature. African Americans -- History -- Juvenile literature. Racism -- United States -- Juvenile literature. United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature. Glencoe (Ill.) -- Central School research projects. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC author. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject. Palatine (Ill.) -- Own voices. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC author. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject. Palatine (Ill.) -- Own voices.
Genre:	Biographical poetry. Prose poems.
Other Author:	Christie, R. Gregory, 1971- illustrator.
Other Title:	Lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama Ona Judge to Barack Obama
Contents:	Did you ever wonder? -- Part I: 1773-1913, Enslavement and emancipation. Ona Judge ; Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman -- Part II: 1862-1968, Freedom and justice. Ida B. Wells ; Martin Luther King Jr. -- Part III: 1961-2008, The promise of America. Barack Obama -- Epilogue -- The long struggle -- History clips.
ISBN	9781662680663

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