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We Are the Ship

The Story of Negro League Baseball

We Are the Ship( )
Author: Nelson, Kadir
Read by: Graham, Dion
ISBN:978-1-60775-512-8
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
Book Format:Pre-recorded MP3 player
List Price:USD $34.99
Book Description:

The story of Negro League baseball is the story of gifted athletes and determined owners; of racial discrimination and international sportsmanship; of fortunes won and lost; of triumphs and defeats on and off the field. It is a perfect mirror for the social and political history of black America in the first half of the twentieth century. But most of all, the story of the Negro Leagues is about hundreds of unsung heroes who overcame segregation, hatred, terrible conditions, and low pay...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black
Juvenile Nonfiction / Sports & Recreation / Baseball & Softball
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.6 x 7.8 x 1.2 Inches
Book Weight:0.35 Pounds
Author Biography
Nelson, Kadir (Author)
Kadir Nelson began drawing at the age of three, and painting at age ten. He won an art scholarship to study at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors, he began his professional career as an artist. He has worked with numerous companies including Dreamworks, where he served as the lead conceptual artist for Amistad and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron; Sports Illustrated; Coca-Cola; The United States Postal Service; and Major League Baseball. In 1999, he started collaborating with several notable authors on a series of picture books including Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen; Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; and Salt in His Shoes by Deloris and Roslyn Jordan. He won a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, a Caldecott Honor and an NAACP Image Award for illustrating Carol Boston Weatherford's Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. He is the author and illustrator of We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball.

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