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A professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut

Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks Who Writes for Black Children? African American Children’s Literature before 1900 Children’s Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

Mildred Taylor’s Logan family series

I am interested in the history of civil rights efforts in America, and Taylor’s novels offer a window on Black family life in the south under segregation, before the protests and demonstrations of the 1950s and 1960s. A moving storyteller, Taylor is able to balance subtle character development with truly gripping plots; and since herContinue reading “Mildred Taylor’s Logan family series”