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Marilyn Nelson

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1) Beautiful ballerina

Author

Nelson, Marilyn

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm

Language

English

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Photographs and a poem bring readers on center stage with the ballerinas from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

2) Fortune's bones: the Manumission requiem

Author

Nelson, Marilyn

Physical Desc

32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

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Fortune was a slave who lived in Waterbury, Conn., in the late 1700s. He was married and the father of 4 children. When Fortune died in 1798, his master, Dr. Porter, preserved his skeleton to further the study of anatomy. Now the skeleton is in the Mattatuck Museum where it is still being studied. There is a skeleton on display in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. Over time, the bones became...

3) Augusta Savage: the shape of a sculptor's life

Author

Nelson, Marilyn

Physical Desc

114 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

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"A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance -- with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"-- Augusta Savage was arguable the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, she flourished during the Harlem Renaissance and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists. Nelson's poems are paired...