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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.
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian
household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a
critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and
lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and
in the life of her lively and independent mind. Her intellectual
gifts and compassionate heart won her the admiration of many
friends -- and the love of her future husband, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. While other young women of her class were spending time
at dances and parties, Eleanor devoted her energies to teaching
children in New York City's poorest neighborhoods. Later, she
became the most socially and politically active -- and
controversial -- First Lady America had ever seen. Ambassador,
activist, and champion of civil rights, Eleanor Roosevelt changed
the soul of America forever.
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