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Celebrating Black History - In Literary Color
Step into the words and paintings of award-winning writers and artists as we celebrate black history in literary color.
Award-winning artist Michele Wood’s work reflects a deep sense of history and place. As a painter, illustrator, designer and writer, she has gained wide recognition and has earned multiple awards including the prestigious American Book Award for her first book, Going Back Home. Michelle is also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award recipient. Her artistry continues to explode in her other works, I See the Rhythm and I See the Rhythm of Gospel.
Fond memories of swimming with “Uncle Martin” is how a small Paula Young-Shelton recalls with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Paula offers a human side to the icons of the civil rights movement in her children’s book “Child of the Civil Rights Movement.”
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles America’s Great Migration of African-Americans in her epic novel, The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel shares many accounts of African-Americans who left the south between 1915 to 1970 in search of freedom and opportunity and, in doing so, changed a nation and the world.
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Step into the words and paintings of award-winning writers and artists as we celebrate black history in literary color.
Award-winning artist Michele Wood’s work reflects a deep sense of history and place. As a painter, illustrator, designer and writer, she has gained wide recognition and has earned multiple awards including the prestigious American Book Award for her first book, Going Back Home. Michelle is also a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award recipient. Her artistry continues to explode in her other works, I See the Rhythm and I See the Rhythm of Gospel.
Fond memories of swimming with “Uncle Martin” is how a small Paula Young-Shelton recalls with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As the daughter of former United Nations Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Paula offers a human side to the icons of the civil rights movement in her children’s book “Child of the Civil Rights Movement.”
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles America’s Great Migration of African-Americans in her epic novel, The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel shares many accounts of African-Americans who left the south between 1915 to 1970 in search of freedom and opportunity and, in doing so, changed a nation and the world.