Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim
Imagine a time when blacks were not allowed to learn to read. Imagine longing to be able to do so. Pick up this book, and experience the drive and desire that led Booker T. Washington to travel to another city and work hard so that he might learn to read.
Illustrations are a water color and collage, and match the words nicely.
American History, biography - mid 1800's
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
by Matt De la Peña
The year is 1938, the place, Yankee Stadium. Joe Louis will
be fighting Hitler's man of the "master race", Max Schmeling.
All of America is listening, as the son of a black sharecropper
steps into the ring. This picture book catches a historic moment,
and makes it easy to visualize, to see why it was so important.
American history, biography, - 1930's
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Before Joe Louis could fight his epic battle, Jack Johnson had to win his; Jack continually pushed for the right for a black man to fight a white man. Before Jack Johnson, this did not happen. But Jack was tenacious.
Easy, rhyming text carries this important story along with an almost mythical quality. Great notes at the end of the book with more information about what happened next.
American history, biography, - 1910
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