Mini Pages highlights for African American History Month
The feature marks African American History Month with reading ideas. It notes John Lewis as a 1963 March on Washington speaker, elected to Congress in 1986, and his Civil Rights work. It mentions Preaching to the Chickens about his Alabama childhood, with illustrations by E B Lewis.
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Frederick Douglass Life and Legacy in Biography
Walter Dean Myers presents a detailed portrait of Frederick Douglass born 1818 in Maryland, learning to read, escaping to New York at age 20, then preaching, publishing, and speaking against slavery. Floyd Cooper’s illustrations vivid life of the abolitionist and his decisive choices.
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Early Life and 1964 Convention
Fannie Lou Hamer born 1917 in Mississippi to sharecropper parents. She left school at age 12 to work with her family. She attended the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City in 1964. A sharecropper is a tenant farmer who rents land for part of the crop.
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Voice of Freedom and Through My Eyes Profiles of Civil Rights Figures
The text outlines Fannie Lou Hamer’s voter registration struggles in 1962 and her lifelong civil rights work, notes Ekna Holmes’s illustrations for Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, and recalls Ruby Bridges’ 1960 Frantz Elementary departure through hostile crowds as depicted in Through My Eyes, highlighting personal perspectives on key moments in civil rights history.
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Resources On the Web and Library Reference
Web resources listed with shortened links and a library reference for the book 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History by Chrisanne Beckner. The items suggest online videos and guides available to researchers and readers at PBS and related platforms.
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Chrisanne Beckner
Infant Lincoln nickname sparks playful debate
A playful exchange asks what Abraham Lincoln’s infant nickname was, with the answer Babe Lincoln. The note sits alongside a science brief reporting Africa’s giraffes have fallen 40 percent in three decades, now about 98,000, due to habitat loss and poaching, and mentions National African American History Month activities for teachers and families.
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