![]() ![]() It was a time when we recognized that if we wanted black children to become readers, it was important for them to find themselves and their lives reflected in the literature we exposed them to. There was also the promise of continuing progress as a spate of black writers - Virginia Hamilton, Lucille Clifton, Eloise Greenfield, Sharon Bell Mathis, Walter Dean Myers, and John Steptoe, to name a few - broke into print with the major publishers. As a result, in the years between the mid-'60s and late '70s there was a gratifying increase in the numbers of such books. ![]() True, during the conscience-stricken 1960s there was an outcry about the lack of children's books about blacks. Black authors of children's books are equally rare. Hard, that is, if you're searching between the covers of children's books or on the shelves of bookstores. ![]()
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