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Gr 4-8 As Weatherford searched for two decades for photos to illustrate her poems celebrating African-American heritage, she also began to write poems to accompany some of the powerful images she encountered. Thus text and art flow through this volume, each having its voice. From the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement, the author evokes imagined and actual individual experiences of the people-some famous, some not-in the historical black-and-white photos, drawings, and etchings (a quilt garners the only color reproduction). They are re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More