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Carter reads the newspaper

"Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being...

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Main Author: Hopkinson, Deborah (Author)
Other Authors: Tate, Don (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Atlanta : Peachtree, 2019
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Woodson, Carter Godwin, > 1875-1950 > Juvenile nonfiction.
Woodson, Carter Godwin, > 1875-1950 > Books and reading > Juvenile nonfiction.
African American historians > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
African American History Month > Juvenile nonfiction.
Historians > United States > Juvenile nonfiction.
Biographies > Juvenile.
Summary: "Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned about the world and how to find out what he didn't know. Many years later, when he was a student at Harvard University (the second African-American and the only child of enslaved parents to do so), one of his professors said that black people had no history. Carter knew that wasn't true--and he set out to make sure the rest of us knew as well"--Provided by the publisher.
Physical Description: 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Audience: Ages 6-10.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781561459346
1561459348
9781682633328
Author Notes: Deborah Hopkinson grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, and received a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts and an MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is the author of more than fifty books for young readers, including picture book and middle grade fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Oregon with her family and a menagerie of pets.

Don Tate grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, where he learned about Black history at the Center for Study and Application of Black Theology. He grew up to become an author and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books, including It Jes' Happened- When Bill Traylor Started to Draw and Poet- The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton, both of received Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor awards. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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