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    Free To Dream
      This book, subtitled The Making of a Poet: Langston Hughes, offers Hughes's poetry as well as a biography.
      Author: Osofsky, Audrey HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading | social studies

    Great Migration, The
      This book consists of reprints of a series of sixty paintings, by Jacob Lawrence, depicting the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North. In search of a better life, people moved by the thousands, from rural lifestyles to urban poverty.
      Author: Lawrence, Jacob HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Something Permanent
      Walker Evans' photographs of southern United States during the Depression years are stark and haunting, and Cynthia Rylant's short poems describe their stories beautifully.
      Author: Rylant, Cynthia HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading | social studies

    This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
      A rope found by a little girl becomes a multigenerational object to her family and helps to tell the story of their migration from the South. It has many uses and eventually becomes a storytelling prompt.
      Author: Woodeson, Jacqueline HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading

    Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
      An historical look at the influence cotton has had on the economy and people of the United States. The author traces the cotton industry from colonial times through the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the Southern plantations to the mill towns lik
      Author: Hopkinson, Deborah HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
      An historical look at the influence cotton has had on the economy and people of the United States. The author traces the cotton industry from colonial times through the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the Southern plantations to the mill towns lik
      Author: Hopkinson, Deborah HSE Descriptors: social studies


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