56 pgs. photos. 2002. Elementary, middle school, high school. AR 5.7 MG.

Striking archival engravings and photographs accompany these twenty-nine original poems, taking the reader on a journey of over 400 years on the African American road to freedom. Weatherford's poems, together with haunting black-and-white images, create portraits of captured Africans, slaves on the auction block, heroes of freedom, craftsmen and storytellers. These are the men and women, ordinary folks as well as legendary heroes, who made their people proud and strong and built the bridge to a promising future. Readers of all ages and cultures will treasure REMEMBER THE BRIDGE.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies and Language Arts - poetry, Black history

A Negro League Scrapbook, also by Carole Weatherford

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