Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Sweethearts of Rhythm by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney


Abstract: In the 1940s, as the world was at war, an all-female jazz band performed on the American home front. They dared to be an interracial group despite the cruelties of Jim Crow laws, and they dared to assert their talents though they were women in a “man’s” profession.


Publisher: Dial, 80 pages.

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