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BKLYN Teacher Lab: African-American Experience (Gr. 4-8)

Post-Emancipation African-American Experience: texts and resources highlighting and connecting key moments in the experience of blacks in post-Civil War America. Resource list for Grades 4-8; developed for the Brooklyn Teacher Lab Summer 2014.

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Courage has no color
Tanya Lee Stone.
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I, too, sing America
[selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn.
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Heart and soul
words and paintings by Kadir Nelson.
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This is the rope
Jacqueline Woodson ; illustrated by James Ransome.
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Freedom walkers
Russell Freedman.
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We are the ship
words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; forward by Hank Aaron.
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March.
[written by] John Lewis, Andrew Aydin ; [illustrated by] Nate Powell.
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