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Author:

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

Title:

Sugar Hill : Harlem's historic neighborhood / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

Publisher:

Albert Whitman & Company,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
African Americans--New York--New York--Fiction.
Stories in rhyme.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Christie, R. Gregory, 1971- illustrator.

Summary:

Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois; and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.

ISBN:

0807576506 (hardback)
9780807576502 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)855580743

LCCN:

2013030748

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)