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Goss, Linda; Goss, Clay – 1995
This book features more than 70 stories about the wide range of the Black experience, including traditional tales from Africa and the West Indies. Collected in the book are family stories and moral fables, ghost stories and tales rich in humor, as well as raps and rhymes, memoirs and songs, recipes and riddles, and stories and poems about freedom,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Authors, Black Culture, Black Literature
Brodie, James Michael; Curry, Barbara K. – 1996
This illustrated book introduces readers to African American literature by telling the story of the men and women who contributed to this body of work. The book begins by recounting the Africans' journey into slavery and how they kept their stories alive by telling them to one another, and by handing them down from generation to generation.…
Descriptors: Authors, Black Culture, Black Literature, Childrens Literature