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From: Nicholas Glass <nick>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 15:50:51 -0500
Hi CCBC-netters,
As the nation commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision (May 17th) to overturn legalized school segregation, there are two new books that try to help young adults understand the history, issues and tangled web school desegregation in American has become.
First out was Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone: the Brown v. Board of Education decision (Jump at the Sun / Hyperion 2004), edited by National Book Award recipient Joyce Carol Thomas. This collection of ten award-winning, best-selling writers for children reflecting on the Brown decision highlights the ambiguities on how to tell the Brown story, and is a great collection.
Just out is Pulitzer Prize Recipient and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's photo history: Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004).
TeachingBooks.net edited a companion movie that Toni Morrison made with Houghton Mifflin, and built a online resource page around parts of this movie for sharing Brown with children.
I invite you to take an online journey with Toni Morrison, and watch two brief movies narrated by Dr. Morrison as she introduces viewers to her book Remember, and reveals photographs and motion-picture images of the events and emotions felt by both sides of the issue.
Also on TeachingBooks.net?s program is a reproducible copy of Dr. Morrison?s introduction to the book Remember entitled, ?The Narrow Path, the Open Gate, the Wide Road?; links to five of the most authoritative resources on the Web for teaching Brown, including the full Supreme Court decision, the US digital archive collection, and the History of Education society?s collection of essays examining the diverse impact in the 50 years since Brown.
You may view and freely distribute the web address directly to this program:
http://www.teachingbooks.net/spec_athr.cgi?name=Morrison%2C%20Toni
It also can be freely accessed from the home page of http://www.TeachingBooks.net
I'd love to know what any of you think of this program, and if you have other teaching Brown resources you think I should share with educators.
Enjoy.
Nick
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Nick Glass TeachingBooks.net 313 West Beltline Highway, Suite 150 Madison, WI 53713
p 608 257.2919 f 608 327.8010 e nick at teachingbooks.net
http://www.teachingbooks.net
See our latest brochure at: http://teachingbooks.net/WhatIsTeachingBooks
Received on Sat 01 May 2004 03:50:51 PM CDT
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 15:50:51 -0500
Hi CCBC-netters,
As the nation commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision (May 17th) to overturn legalized school segregation, there are two new books that try to help young adults understand the history, issues and tangled web school desegregation in American has become.
First out was Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone: the Brown v. Board of Education decision (Jump at the Sun / Hyperion 2004), edited by National Book Award recipient Joyce Carol Thomas. This collection of ten award-winning, best-selling writers for children reflecting on the Brown decision highlights the ambiguities on how to tell the Brown story, and is a great collection.
Just out is Pulitzer Prize Recipient and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's photo history: Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004).
TeachingBooks.net edited a companion movie that Toni Morrison made with Houghton Mifflin, and built a online resource page around parts of this movie for sharing Brown with children.
I invite you to take an online journey with Toni Morrison, and watch two brief movies narrated by Dr. Morrison as she introduces viewers to her book Remember, and reveals photographs and motion-picture images of the events and emotions felt by both sides of the issue.
Also on TeachingBooks.net?s program is a reproducible copy of Dr. Morrison?s introduction to the book Remember entitled, ?The Narrow Path, the Open Gate, the Wide Road?; links to five of the most authoritative resources on the Web for teaching Brown, including the full Supreme Court decision, the US digital archive collection, and the History of Education society?s collection of essays examining the diverse impact in the 50 years since Brown.
You may view and freely distribute the web address directly to this program:
http://www.teachingbooks.net/spec_athr.cgi?name=Morrison%2C%20Toni
It also can be freely accessed from the home page of http://www.TeachingBooks.net
I'd love to know what any of you think of this program, and if you have other teaching Brown resources you think I should share with educators.
Enjoy.
Nick
- * - * - * - *
Nick Glass TeachingBooks.net 313 West Beltline Highway, Suite 150 Madison, WI 53713
p 608 257.2919 f 608 327.8010 e nick at teachingbooks.net
http://www.teachingbooks.net
See our latest brochure at: http://teachingbooks.net/WhatIsTeachingBooks
Received on Sat 01 May 2004 03:50:51 PM CDT
