Sugar Hill : Harlem's historic neighborhood / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

Title:

ISBN:

9780807576502

Personal Author:

Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

Publication Information:

[Chicago, Illinois] : Albert Whitman & Company, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Summary:

Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois; and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader LG 3.5 0.5 174265

Geographic Term:

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

African Americans--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction.

Black people--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction

Genre:

Picture books

Stories in rhyme

Added Author:

Christie, R. Gregory, 1971-