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We Need Diverse Books

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

We Need Diverse Books

Part One
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Who is the audience?

Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman (1899)
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W.E.B. Du Bois

Co-Founder of NAACP

The Brownies' Book 1919-1921

Positive images of Black children aimed at Black audience

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Influence of editors and writers

McCarthyism and children's publishing

Influence of Civil Rights Movement on children's books

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Council on Interracial Books for Children

Formerly "The Loose Enders"
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Walter Dean Myers

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The story we know

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Rudine Sims Bishop: Shadow and Substance

Afro-American Experience in Contemporary Children's Fiction
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"Social Conscience" books

"Culturally Conscious" books

#WeNeedDiverseBooks

New efforts in the 21st Century
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