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Book Detail
Let It Shine |
Publication Information
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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: |
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
essays, biography and autobiography, nonfiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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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. |
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