Lean’tin L. Bracks is Chair of the Department of Arts and Languages at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Bracks has had her work included in publications such as Freedom Facts and Firsts, The Black Scholar, African American National Biography, and Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture. Awards include Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Who’s Who Among American Teachers, and an honorary degree from her undergraduate institution, Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio. She completed her graduate work at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln
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Children's Literature
"This almanac highlights the considerable contributions African
Americans have made to the fabric of U.S. society and culture.
Perhaps most inspiring about this collection is that it also
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experience." Birmingham Times
"Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American
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Spectrum
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