Diversity Books: Black/African
Tell us about books that you’ve read, that depict Black/African people in a positive light, describe them accurately, tells us how amazing they are, etc!
Let us know the genre and age group. Tell us a little about the book, why you recommend it as a great depiction of one of our beautiful, diverse groups in our world, and share a pic if you can!
Let’s celebrate our wonderful differences in all of us, and share some amazing books as well! <3
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I’m adding a taglist to start, but this post is open to absolutely everyone! <3
Editing to add:
Please include books written by people of this diversity group as well! <3
@jesusredeemedme2425 inspire meee ❤️
Warriors Don't Cry
I just finished this book. I had no idea of how AWFUL people behaved toward the Little Rock Nine, the kids who helped to get schools integrated. But the kids overcame and saw results! <3
From Goodreads:
In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity.
In 1957, well before Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.
Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob’s rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/356609.Warriors_Don_t_Cry
