Book Suggestions:
CCSD libraries have many books that you could read for more background on brilliant black activists and political leaders. We would like to highly suggest one very powerful and important book:
CCSD libraries have many books that you could read for more background on brilliant black activists and political leaders. We would like to highly suggest one very powerful and important book:
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In a letter to his teenage son, Coates attempts to answer the questions what is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we wrestle with the knowledge we have of our history as Americans and free ourselves from it. Find it on your schools shelves here: 305.8 COA or 305.800973 COA Or Find the audio book in Overdrive |
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
--Ta-Nehisi Coates, from Between the World and Me