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Issues From '06
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TELL ME A STORY
Heard of trickster tales? How about Brer Rabbit and the Flying Africans? Reading folktales and folklore can be fun and exciting, but what ma
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MALCOLM X
Who was Malcolm X? What does the X mean? What did he really believe? We'll use his own words to tell his story, and it's quite a story. We'
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$6.95 Suggested for ages 9-14
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HEROES OF EARLY AMERICA
The stories of the first black people in America were poorly recorded and often ignored. For every person we know about, there are dozens of
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Issues From '05
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VANDERZEE, JAMES: HARLEM'S PHOTOGRAPHER
Want to meet a master photographer? Here's your chance! Let's see if you can guess who? His career spanned almost a century. He was known as
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$6.95 Suggested for ages 9-13
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SINGIN' THE BLUES
Get your dancing shoes ready - FOOTSTEPS has a terrific issue on Blues music just waiting for you! You'll meet B.B. King and his favorite gu
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SPORTS HEROES
Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, the Williams sisters - everyone's heard the names! But, what about Althea Gibson, Jesse Owens, and Sugar Ray Ro
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WRITERS, WOMEN
Here's a chance to meet several of today's up-and-coming women writers! You'll enjoy excerpts from Patricia Hopkins' Contending Forces and l
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INVENTORS, AMAZING
Read about a woman who invented a revolutionary hair treatment. Learn why a bed made another woman an inventor. Meet a man who worked along
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Issues From '04
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MOVIES, AT THE
Ready? Then, start the cameras rolling as we travel on site to studios in Hollywood and around the country that paved the way for blacks on
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CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION
Wonder what really happened after the Confederate states surrendered? Wonder just who the carpetbaggers and scalawags were? What about the s
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SCIENTISTS, BLACK
Like peanut butter? How about refined sugar? Remember the passage in Herman Melville's Moby Dick about the Temple toggle iron that made harp
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HUGHES, LANGSTON AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
From "The Simple Stories" to "Don't You want To Be Free," there's nothing dull or uninteresting about Langston Hughes. Join us for a ringsid
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BLACK CHURCH
Heard of the A.M.E. Church? Maybe you know it by the name of Mother Bethel Church? How about the A.M.E. Zion Church? Julia Foote? Thomas And
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Issues From '03
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ROBESON, PAUL
Meet an American singer whose albums have been hits for more than 60 years - and are still among the favorites in China and Russia. Travel t
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MILITARY, BLACKS AND
In the air, on the seas, and on land, African Americans have bravely served their country since colonial days. Their efforts may have taken
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FOLK ART, BLACK
Just what is folk art? Is it something you can do? If not now, later? How many kinds of folk art are there? Are there folk artists still liv
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MARSHALL, THURGOOD & CIVIL RIGHTS
Ever hear of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education? Did you know that it affects every public school in this country?
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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Climb aboard for a ride that's sure to have you holding your breath at times. We'll read firsthand accounts of narrow escapes that required
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Issues From '02
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WHITE HOUSE, BLACKS AND THE
Travel with us to Washington, D.C., and the White House. Read about African Americans who helped build the president's house and the city it
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GREAT NORTHERN MIGRATION
When African Americans read in a Chicago newspaper that they should move North, that opportunities were better there, many choose to take th
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COLONIAL SLAVERY
Ever wonder how and why slavery began in the United States? Or, whether the U.S. was where the practice of slavery started? You'll find the
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MUSIC, EARLY BLACK
Kumbaya, "Were You There?," "Free At Last" - sound familiar? Turn the radio on, flip the channels on the TV, or go to the movies and you wil
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RAILROADS, BLACKS IN THE
Hop aboard for a journey on the rails crisscrossing the United States. Find out when and why the first sleeping and dining cars were designe
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Issues From '01
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KING, M.L., JR./ MOREHOUSE YEARS
Martin Luther King, Jr., entered Morehouse College at 15 years old, and it was there, according to many sources, that many of his ideas and
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CAPE VERDE ISLANDS
Join us at the crossroads of the Atlantic Ocean: the Cape Verde Islands. Find out why they became the crossroads, why so many famous visitor
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AMERICAN NEGRO THEATER
Join us for a fascinating look at a brief period in time (approximately 11 years) as we go behind the scenes to find out the who, when, wher
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IMMIGRATION, BLACK
Travel with us to various parts of the United States and meet African Americans whose ancestors voluntarily chose to emigrate from their hom
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LIBERIA
Travel with us to Liberia, Africa's oldest republic. Find out why thousands of African Americans chose to leave the United States in the 180
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Issues From '00
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SLAVERY AT MT VERNON
Turn back the pages of history and learn from old records, personal notes, and long-forgotten pictures the story of the slaves who worked at
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LOUVERTURE, T. AND HAITI
Travel with us to Haiti, the world's first black Republic. Meet Toussaint Louverture and find out how he came to lead a slave revolt that re
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MONTGOMERY TO BIRMINGHAM
Join us for an exciting issue of FOOTSTEPS as we focus on three key events in the Civil Rights Movement. Meet Rosa Parks whose refusal to mo
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NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL
Get your baseball bat and cap and join us as we meet the players and managers of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Read about the remarkable achie
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GOLD RUSH, BLACKS IN
The "Gold Rush" was a wild time in California. Join us as we follow adventurers and others who sought a better life in the gold fields of t
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Issues From '99
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HEMINGS, SALLY
Come with us to Monticello! Read about Sally Hemings and the other slaves who lived and worked on Thomas Jefferson's estate. Find out why S
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MANSA MUSA
Join us as we turn back the pages of history and visit the kingdom of Mali that reached its height under Mansa Musa, who is also known as th
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WHALING, BLACKS IN
Learn why blacks became whalers, what key positions they held, and how their involvement influenced the economic development of the United S
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COWBOYS/COWGIRLS, BLACK
Join us as we learn about Bob Lemmons, Nat Love, Bill Pickett and other black cowboys who rode the trails and worked on ranches throughout t
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MASS 54TH VOL INFANTRY
Meet the men who joined the Massachusetts 54th Regiment and learn how their determination won them uniforms, equal pay, and respect. Accompa
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Issues From '98
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SENGBE
In the charter issue of FOOTSTEPS, read about the life of Sengbe and his people in their homeland of Mende (now Sierra Leone), the story of
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