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When Black kids – shut out from the whitewashed world of children's literature – took matters into their own hands

  • Written by Paige Gray, Professor of Writing and Liberal Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design
imageA newspaper boy hawks copies of the Chicago Defender.Library of Congress

Hanging on the wall in my office is the framed cover of the inaugural issue of The Brownies’ Book, a monthly periodical for Black youths created by W.E.B. Du Bois and other members of the NAACP in 1920.

The magazine – the first of its kind – includes poems...

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