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| | African-American Books, Black History Month at Embracing The Child |
 | | Billie Holiday's song takes on a deeper meaning when accompanied by Jerry Pinkney's tender images of a family's journey during the Great Migration of the 1930's when millions of African-Americans fled from the rural south to the urban north in hope of making a better life for their families. |
 | | This is a moving collection of excerpted writings (letters, speeches, poetry, novels, songs, and more) by famous African-Americans with thoughtful commentary on the authors, as well as the impact the writings have had on society. |
 | | Working in the rice fields of a plantation from "day clean to sun-go-red," he remembers-and passes these memories on to his children, as they do to their own children. |
| www.embracingthechild.org /africanamerican.htm |
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