Coretta Scott
Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta knew, too well, the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to grow. Together with Martin Luther King, Jr., she gave birth to a vision and a journey—with dreams of freedom for all. This extraordinary...
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Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta knew, too well, the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to grow. Together with Martin Luther King, Jr., she gave birth to a vision and a journey—with dreams of freedom for all. This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061253652 (0061253650)
Publish date: January 6th 2009
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Pictures by award-winning illustrator Kadir Nelson.Text by poet Ntozake Shange. Excellence. I anticipated excellence.But perhaps poets are not the best authors of picture books. I had trouble following the text and I’m a grownup. I had to think too much about the words on the page and it wasn’t beca...
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