Shange, Ntozake.

Ellington was not a street / written by Ntozake Shange ; illustrations by Kadir Nelson. - 1st ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2004], c1983. - [34] p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.

School Library Journal starred

Presents an illustrated poem in which Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood growing up in the company W.E.B. Du Bois, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Robeson, and other great African-American men who were instrumental in changing American culture and society.

5.0 Follett Library Resources 3-6

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African American civil rights workers--Juvenile poetry.
African American artists--Juvenile poetry.
African American girls--Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
African Americans--Poetry.
American poetry.
African Americans--Poetry.
American poetry.

PS3569.H3324 / E45 2004

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