Do you know who Claudette Colvin is? You do know that Rosa Parks wasn’t the first person to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, don’t you? Read Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose and you will discover this unsung civil rights hero.
In full honesty, I [...]
Please forgive my rambling for a bit. Let me start off by saying that I know NOTHING about baseball. My only experience with the sport is when I lived in Chicago I went to a Sox game once and when I was in my early twenties I was playing a game of softball (not baseball [...]
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change by Michelle Cook was inspired by the phrase “Rosa sat so Martin could march. Martin marched so Barack could run. Barack an so our children can soar!”
Each spread highlights key figures in African American history including George Washington Carver, Jesse Owens, [...]
I have gotten so behind in the number of books that I’ve read but not yet reviewed that I hope you forgive me for failing to write my own summary for The Blue Cotton Gown, A Midwife’s Memoir by Patricia Harman. From the jacket flap:
Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women’s health clinic with her [...]
Picking Cotton, Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson- Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo is an unusual powerful story that I don’t think I’ll ever forget. In her early twenties, Jennifer Thompson was victim to a terrible crime. Her outside lights were smashed, her phone lines cut and while she slept [...]
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