Let It Shine
Publication Information
Author:  Pinkney, Andrea	Illustrator:  Alcorn, Stephen
Title:  Let It Shine	Date:  2000
Publisher:  Harcourt	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-15-201005=X	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    essays, biography and autobiography, nonfiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
These ten essays on African American women introduce well-know and some lesser known freedom fighters. The colorful illustrations, the informative text, and the chatty tone will attract readers. The author's introducation and suggestions for further reading will be useful in the classroom.
Teaching Ideas:
This book belongs in text sets on Civil Rights and African American women leaders. The essays portray ten women: Sojourner Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisolm. Students may want to use one of the essays as a model to research books and the Internet and write about a more recent freedom fighter who is not included. The book urges students to discuss the question of why these women, many of them poor and without support, suffered physically, withstood humiliation and defeat, overcame criticism to pursue their causes.
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Ethnic Groups > African-American Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > life choices > taking risks Government/Civics > voting History > region > U.S. history > Civil Rights Social Studies > sociology > social issues > social action > activism Ethnic Groups > African-American > well-known people > Truth, Sojourner Social Studies > sociology > women > women in history Social Studies > sociology > women > women in history > Zenobia Ethnic Groups > African-American > well-known people > Wells, Ida B.

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