Full name: Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780807576502 0807576506

Take a walk through Harlem's Sugar Hill and meet all the amazing people who made this neighborhood legendary. With upbeat rhyming, read-aloud text, Sugar Hill celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Children raised in Sugar Hill not only looked up to these achievers but also experienced art and culture at home, at church, and in the community. Books, music lessons, and art classes expanded their horizons beyond the narrow limits of segregation. 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. Similar books: The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford Leontyne Price by Carole Boston Weatherford Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford Jesse Owens by Carole Boston Weatherford Gordon Parks by Carole Boston Weatherford Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton As Good as Anybody by Richard Michelson Tibet by Peter Sis Boycott Blues by Andrea Davis Pinkney Schomburg by Carole Boston Weatherford Lightship by Brian Floca Seeds of Freedom by Hester Bass Coming to America by Betsy Maestro The Story of the Pilgrims by Katharine Ross The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford