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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
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Description
Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house...
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