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Blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson led a hardscrabble life, but
in 1977, NASA's Voyager spacecrafts were launched, carrying a
golden record to introduce planet Earth to the cosmos, and one of
his songs became the defining anthem.
This revealing biography of a pioneering photojournalist and social
reformer Jacob Riis shows how he brought to light one of the worst
social justice issues plaguing New York City in the late 1800s--the
tenement housing crisis--using newly invented flash photography.
Jacob Riis was familiar with poverty. He did his best to combat it
in his hometown of Ribe, Denmark, and he experienced it when he
immigrated to the United States in 1870. Jobs for immigrants were
hard to get and keep, and Jacob often found himself penniless,
sleeping on the streets or in filthy homeless shelters. When he
became a journalist, Jacob couldn't stop seeing the poverty in the
city around him. He began to photograph overcrowded tenement
buildings and their impoverished residents, using newly developed
flash powder to illuminate the constantly dark rooms to expose the
unacceptable conditions. His photographs inspired the people of New
York to take action. Gary Kelley's detailed illustrations perfectly
accompany Alexis O'Neill's engaging text in this STEAM title for
young readers.
In a picture-book format, the noted ballet dancer shares the story
of her childhood growing up on an Osage Indian reservation in
Oklahoma, where she took her first piano and dance lessons, and
ends with 17-year old Tallchief leaving for New York to follow her
dreams. Illustrations.
They went by many names, but the world came to know them best as
the Harlem Hellfighters. Two thousand strong, these black Americans
from New York picked up brass instruments--under the leadership of
famed bandleader and lieutenant James Reese Europe--to take the
musical sound of Harlem into the heart of war. From the creators of
the 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, And the Soldiers
Sang, this remarkable narrative nonfiction rendering of WWI -- and
American -- history uses free-verse poetry and captivating art to
tell century-old story of hellish combat, racist times, rare
courage, and inspired music.
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