Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

in publications design from University of Baltimore and an M.F.A. REMEMBER THE BRIDGE: POEMS OF A PEOPLE (North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award)įor career achievements, Carole received the Ragan-Rubin Award from North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Literature Award, among the state’s highest civilian honors.FREEDOM ON THE MENU: THE GREENSBORO SITINS (North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award).THE SOUND THAT JAZZ MAKES (Carter G. Woodson Award from National Council for the Social Studies, NAACP Image Award finalist).BIRMINGHAM, 1963 (Jefferson Cup from Virginia Library Association, Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award and Jane Addams Children’s Literature Honor).ROSENWALD (SCBWI Golden Kite Honor, NAACP Image Award finalist) BEFORE JOHN WAS A JAZZ GIANT: A SONG OF JOHN COLTRANE (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor and the SCBWI Golden Kite Honor)īecoming Billie Holiday (Coretta Scott King Author Honor).MOSES: WHEN HARRIET TUBMAN LED HER PEOPLE TO FREEDOM (NAACP Image Award, Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Honor Medal).SUGAR HILL: HARLEM’S HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD (Arnold Adoff Early Poetry Honor).VOICE OF FREEDOM: FANNIE LOU HAMER, SPIRIT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (Caldecott Honor, Sibert Honor, Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Award and Flora Steiglitz Straus Award from Bank Street College of Education).GORDON PARKS: HOW THE PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURED BLACK AND WHITE AMERICA (NAACP Image Award).

Her 40-plus books include many award winners: Her latest releases are FREEDOM IN CONGO SQUARE and YOU CAN FLU: THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN. Her work spans poetry, nonfiction, biography and historical fiction. And she mines the past for family stories, fading traditions and forgotten struggles. She believes that poetry makes music with words. A New York Times best-selling author, Carole Boston Weatherford is one of the leading poets writing for young people today.

Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford