A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Shepard, Ray Anthony
A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Shepard, Ray Anthony

A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama

This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet...
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Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Shepard, Ray Anthony

A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama

$45.28
A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Shepard, Ray Anthony

A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama

$45.28
Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much--and how little--has changed for Black Americans since our country's founding.

Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates, A LONG TIME COMING reveals the universal importance of its subjects' struggles for justice. From freedom seeker Ona Judge, who fled her enslavement by America's first president, to Barack Obama, the first Black president, all of Shepard's protagonists fight valiantly for justice for themselves and all Black Americans in any way that they can. But it is also a highly personal book, as Shepard -- whose maternal grandfather was enslaved -- shows how the grand sweep of history has touched his life, reflecting on how much progress has been made against racism, while also exhorting readers to complete the vast work that remains to be done.

Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781662680663
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2023
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 65
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2023
School Library Journal 07/01/2023 pg. 85

About the Author
Ray Anthony Shepard is the author of Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery, a Carter G. Woodson Award Honor Book and a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, and Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge, an ALSC and an NCSS Notable Book.

R. Gregory Christie is a recipient of the Caldecott Honor, a winner of the NAACP Image award, and a six-time Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award honoree. His recent Calkins Creek books include Answering the Cry for Freedom by Gretchen Woelfle, which won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, and Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan, which received six starred reviews and for which Christie received the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor.
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