NEW BOOKS: JANUARY 2020

NEW BOOKS: JANUARY 2020

Are you tired of reading the same ole’ books? HAVE NO FEAR! Your friends at the Children’s Library in Homewood have some amazing NEW options for your awesome readers! Instead of only listing new books, each person in TCL chose a new book from the shelves, read them, and wrote a personalize statement about what…

Ain’t I A Woman?

Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist and author who lived a miserable life as a slave, serving several masters throughout New York before escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom, Truth became a Christian and, at what she believed was God’s urging, preached about abolitionism and equal rights…

Martin Luther King Jr., Day: “A Place to Land”

Martin Luther King Jr., Day: “A Place to Land”

If you don’t know anything else about Martin Luther King Jr., you are definitely familiar with Dr. King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech that was spoken to millions of people at the March of Washington on August 28th, 1963. His speech became the catapult to bring about justice and equality for African Americans during…