Ron Butler
1) Rebound
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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
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Books by Carole Boston Weatherford
Children's Books About Black Business Owners
Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
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Children's Books About Black Business Owners
Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
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Highlights the life and legacy of Arturo Schomburg who worked during the Harlem Renaissance to raise awareness of Afro-Latin American and African American achievements and the contributions they made to society. Includes a timeline.
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"The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery...