Chapin LibGuides: Class 7: Intro to Harlem Renaissance: Legacy

Welcome

Young African-Americans took advantage of improved access to higher education. This opened up new career paths and opportunities to attain advanced degrees. Perhaps most importantly, people — black AND white — began the push for racial integration. Planting the seeds of what would eventually become the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

a helpful picture book

28 Days by Charles R. Smith; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Call Number: =J 973 SMI
ISBN: 1596438207
Publication Date: 2015-01-13
Each day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman in the country, as well as one of the wealthiest black Americans, to Barack Obama, the country's first African-American president. With powerful illustrations by Shane Evans, this is a completely unique look at the importance and influence of African Americans on the history of this country.