Tonya Bolden
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Award-winning author Tonya Bolden explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America. Including groundbreaking computer scientists, doctors, inventors, physicists, pharmacists, mathematicians, aviators, and many more, this book celebrates over 50 women who have shattered the glass ceiling, defied racial discrimination, and pioneered in their fields. In these profiles, young readers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous. So in the 1930s, Victor created a guide -- The Negro Motorist Green-Book -- compiling information on where to go and what places to avoid so that black travelers could have a safe and pleasant time. While the Green Book started out small,...
5) 33 things every girl should know: stories, songs, poems, and smart talk by 33 extraordinary women
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A mix of short stories, essays, a comic strip, a speech, an interview, poems, and more which offer insights and advice for girls.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
This young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.
An NAACP Image Award finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A NYPL Best Book for Teens
History texts often teach that the United States has made a straight line of progress toward Black equality. The reality is more complex: milestones like the end of slavery,...
An NAACP Image Award finalist
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A NYPL Best Book for Teens
History texts often teach that the United States has made a straight line of progress toward Black equality. The reality is more complex: milestones like the end of slavery,...