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Explore the 1920s January 2024
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Claudie: American Girl Doll
by American Girl
Claudie has brown eyes and shoulder-length black hair with tight curls that comes in a half-up style with a hairbow. She is accompanied by Meet Claudie: an American girl by Brit Bennett. To checkout, please visit the Fountaindale Public Library's Children's Desk.
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Adventures With Claudie : An American Girl
by Brit Bennett
Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Will Claudie's creativity be enough to save the home she loves?
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Picture Books about the 1920s
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
by Sherri L. Smith
This title traces Harlem's history all the way back to its 17th-century roots, explaining how the early 20th-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance..
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What were the roaring twenties?
by Michele Mortlock
It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild, exciting decade. It began on the heels of one tragedy--the flu pandemic of 1918--and ended with another: the start of the Great Depression. But in between there were plenty of good times.
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What was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
by Caleb Gayle
Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a thriving neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. Then, in one weekend, all of this was lost. A racist mob tore through the streets, burning everything to the ground and killing scores of innocent residents. Learn about what led to one of the worst moments of racial violence in America's history in this nonfiction book for young readers
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Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford
This title takes a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. This picture book sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future.
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Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
by Keith O'Brien
In the years between World War I and World War II, airplane racing was one of the most popular sports in America. Yet women who flew planes were often ridiculed by the press, and initially they weren’t invited to race. Still, a group of women was determined to take to the sky—no matter what. Together, five women fought for the chance to race against the men—and in 1936 one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all.
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We are the ship: the story of Negro League baseball
by Kadir Nelson
Rich illustrations capture the excitement and thrills of the glory years of Negro League baseball in the early 1900s, profiling its star athletes, highlighting the challenges faced by the players, and the sacrifices made to live out their dreams and play the game they loved.
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Breaking through : how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties
by Sue Macy
This title offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the journey of women's rights through the lens of women in sports during the pivotal decade of the 1920s. With elegant prose, Breaking Through explores the many hurdles presented to female athletes as they stormed the field, stepped up to bat, and won the right to compete in sports.
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Dear Mr. Rosenwald
by Carole Boston Weatherford
Based on a true story, a young girl dreams about the great opportunities she will have when the new Rosenwald School, an institution built on money donated from the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., is finally built in her community in the rural South.
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Game of freedom: Mestre Bimba and the art of capoeira
by Duncan Tonatiuh
Taking readers back to 1920s Brazil, this powerful biography follows Mestre Bimba, who advocated for capoeira—an art form that blends martial arts, dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality—to resist racial oppression, turning this marginalized practice into a global phenomenon.
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Cut!: how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors revolutionized animation
by C. E. Winters
Lotte Reiniger, a moviemaking pioneer, first used her talent for hand-cutting paper silhouettes in the 1920s to create stop-motion animated movies. She invented the multiplane camera to give her animations depth of field and, with a small team, designed and directed the oldest full-length animated film in existence. Lotte eventually created approximately sixty films for movies and television.
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The House of Serendipity
by Lucy Ivison
Forging a serendipitous partnership over their dressmaking talents in 1920s London, a clever tailor-turned-lady's maid and her creative mistress risk their futures to help a debutant create a disguise to escape high-society life.
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Henry and the kite dragon
by Bruce Edward Hall
Henry and his friends, who are from Chinatown, muster their courage and confront the boys from Little Italy who are constantly destroying their kites This wonderful story, set in the 1920s, is drawn from true events.
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The smuggler's legacy
by Franklin W. Dixon
While touring the damp escape tunnels beneath the Prohibition Museum, a former speakeasy, in New York City, Frank and Joe stumble upon secret documents from the 1920s that could change history and must uncover the truth before it's buried for another 100 years.
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