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African Americans have been drawn to the sea for hundreds of years. In this collection of biographies, Eloise Greenfield examines how that connection to the sea has influenced generations of African Americans -- from a shipbuilder-businessman during the American Revolution to the first woman and African American to hold the highest-ranking position in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps. The lives of the extraordinary men and women included here create a stirring image of the powerful tie between African Americans and the water that has both bound them and set them free. Jan Spivey Gilchrist's artwork is as evocative as the profiles of the people it illustrates.
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Eloise Greenfield's love of writing shines through brilliantly in each and every one of her books, which include Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems and How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea, both illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. She is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, the Foundation for Children's Literature Hope S. Dean Award, and the National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Book Award. In 2018 she received the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. Ms. Greenfield lives in Washington, DC. You can follow her on Twitter @ELGreenfield.
Jan Spivey Gilchrist is the award-winning illustrator-author of seventy-four children's books. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award, a Junior Library Guild Best Book, an NAACP Image Award nominee, a CCBC Best Book, and a Georgia State Children's Book Award nominee. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and a Coretta Scott King Honor for her illustrations in Night on Neighborhood Street, all written by Eloise Greenfield. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators in 2001 and into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1999. She lives near Chicago, Illinois.
Gr. 4-6. This well-designed collective biography features African American men and women who answered the call of the sea. In the first section, "Profiles," Greenfield presents seven individuals, each introduced by a full-page black-and-white illustration. The second section, "Snapshots," introduces six people, some not thought of in terms of the sea, including Langston Hughes, who worked as a mess boy on a ship bound for Africa. The breadth of the subject gives Greenfield a variety of stories to tell, and she tells them very well. Among those profiled are Michelle Janine Howard, the first woman to act as the executive officer of a U.S. Navy combat ship, and Robert Smalls, who sailed a Confederate ship carrying 16 slaves out of Charleston Harbor to the Union fleet and freedom. The final pages provide brief introductions to topics such as the all-black Pea Island Station Lifesavers of North Carolina and the WAVES program of the U.S. Navy. With subtle shading and effective use of white space, Gilchrist provides sensitive drawings. An afterword and extensive bibliographies of books and other sources are appended. Worthwhile reading on an unusual topic. Carolyn Phelan
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- PublisherAmistad
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0060289910
- ISBN 13 9780060289911
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
- IllustratorGilchrist Jan Spivey
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