Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, (Paperback)

from jamiesque

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters is a book valuable for its condensed collection of pioneering African American Women throughout the United States. The women were carefully selected by Andera Davis Pinkney to represent an influencial group of women who span American history f...

from Kathdavis54

It would be hard to write this book. There are so many important people in African American history, how would anyone choose just a few women to write about? Andrea Davis Pinkney has taken this challenge and to me it falls a little flat. When I knew the story a woman she was discussing, the narra...

from engpunk77

Absolutely perfect in length and reading level for a very short, in-class biography unit at the middle school level. Perfect for Black History Month. If you have one copy, it'd be fun to pass around, each student choosing a different woman on which to focus, get a class set, or even better, a few...

from nbmars

Stories of ten important women are given here: Sojourner Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm. Each biography is preceded by an oil painting by illustrator Step...