One More River to Cross
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| Author(s) | Walter Dean Myers |
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| Subtitle | An African American Photograph Album |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
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| This intimate collection of photographs documents the African American experience, a journey from captivity to freedom, from south to north, east to west. It celebrates the courageous achievements of men and women whose defiant rejection of inequality and subjugation put their own lives at risk. | |
Winner of the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, One More River to Cross is essentially a photographic history of black America.
Walter Dean Myers, a celebrated writer of young adult books, writes that he wanted to show black Americans as they’re not always shown. Thus there are photographs of former slaves, black soldiers in the Civil War, black cowboys, baseball players, sailors, aviators, farmers, field hands, and just plain folks.
Myers’s text is minimal, leaving the emphasis on the photographs, which are sometimes haunting and sometimes inspiring, but always moving.
