While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
Profiles the life and career of author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who travelled extensively to study and collect African-American culture and folklore, and became an influential writer of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance.
"Using the alphabet to introduce its contents, this book includes topic such as abolitionists, cowboys, Harlem Renaissance, and Kwanzaa"--Provided by publisher.