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Carole Boston Weatherford

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Carole Boston Weatherford is a children's book author and poet who "mines the past for family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles." A number of Weatherford's books tell the stories of African-American historical figures such as Harriet Tubman, Jesse Owens, and Billie Holiday. Other books recount historical events such as the Greensboro Sit-ins and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Weatherford's books have received a wide variety of awards, including a Caldecott Honor for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom.

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Carole Boston Weatherford

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Books from Carole Boston Weatherford

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Freedom in Congo Square

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History

The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights

Oprah: The Little Speaker

Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect

Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom: The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents

A Negro League Scrapbook

Michelle Obama: First Mom

Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi Calls the House to Order

Pet Crazy: A Poetry Friday Power Book