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Sweethearts Of Rhythm : The Story Of The Greatest All- Girl Swing Band In The World

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Written by Marilyn Nelson ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
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Book, Dial Books, 2009
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International Sweethearts of Rhythm · Poetry · Juvenile literature · Women jazz musicians · United States · Biography · Juvenile literature · Big bands · History · 20th century · Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- · Pinkney, Jerry
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The Freedom Business : Including A Narrative Of The Life And Adventures Of Venture, A Native Of Africa

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poems by Marilyn Nelson ; art by Deborah Dancy
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Book, Wordsong, 2008
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Smith, Venture, · 1729?-1805 · Juvenile poetry · Juvenile literature · Slaves · Connecticut · Middle Haddam · African Americans · Slavery · Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- · Dancy, Deborah · Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805
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Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies And Little Misses Of Color : Poems

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by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson ; pictures by Floyd Cooper
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Book, Wordsong, 2007
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Crandall, Prudence, · 1803-1890 · Juvenile poetry · Poetry · Women educators · Connecticut · Girls’ schools · African American students · African American girls · Discrimination in education · History · 19th century · Children’s poetry, American · American poetry · Canterbury (Conn.) · Race relations · 19th century · Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- · Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- · Cooper, Floyd
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A Wreath For Emmett Till

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Marilyn Nelson ; illustrated by Philippe Lardy
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Book, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
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In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Till, Emmett, · 1941-1955 · Juvenile poetry · African Americans · Crimes against · African American teenage boys · Trials (Murder) · Murder victims · Hate crimes · Lynching · Children’s poetry, American · Mississippi · Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- · Lardy, Philippe
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Carver, A Life In Poems

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Marilyn Nelson
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Book, 1st ed, Front Street, 2001
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This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Carver, George Washington, · 1864?-1943 · Poetry · Juvenile literature · African American agriculturists · Agriculturists · Juvenile literature · Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
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