Cape Fear Rising AMP0429 Coretta Scott King Honor author

Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel

I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter

is part memoir

his “hard-earned right

and starts to think more about his future and what he has to fight for

Cape Fear Rising AMP0429 Coretta Scott King Honor authorWhen black citizens win elected offices in 1898 Wilmington, NC, white citizens stage a coup. Based on real events. Twenty fifth anniversary edition. In August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle class black citizens. Many of the city's lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals were black, as were all the tradesmen and stevedores. The black community outnumbered the white community by more than two to one. But white civic