NMAAHC READING RESOURCES Created for 3rd - 12th grade students and educators, the book selections are curated to provide enrichment about African American history and culture based on the permanent and temporary exhibitions within the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
L4 CULTURE GALLERIES: TAKING THE STAGE NMAAHC READING RESOURCES CULTURE GALLERIES
TAKING THE STAGE
Taking the Stage explores the history of African Americans in theater, film, and television to celebrate their creative achievements, demonstrate their cultural impact, and illuminate their struggles for artistic freedom and equal representation. C U L T U R E G A L L E R I E S
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Alvin Ailey Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina Andrea Davis Pinkney Young Readers Edition Nonfiction Misty Copeland Nonfiction Ira's Shakespeare Dream Glenda Armand Jake the Fake Keeps it Real Nonfiction Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach Fiction Who Is Oprah Winfrey? A Star is Born (The News Crew, Book 3) Barbara Kramer Nonfiction Walter Dean Myers Fiction Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven African Americans in the Performing Arts Wilkinson Steven Otfinoski Leda Schubert Nonfiction Nonfiction
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -The Grandpa Stops a War : A Paul Art of the Movie Robeson Story Ramin Zahed Susan Robeson Nonfiction Nonfiction Art Of Marvel Studios: Black Panther Plum Fantastic Eleni Roussos Whoopi Goldberg and Deborah Underwood Nonfiction Fiction C U L T U R E G A L L E R I E S
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A Raisin in the Sun White People Do Not Know How to Lorraine Hansberry Behave at Entertainments Designed for Dramabook Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African and American Theater Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, Marvin McAllister What the Academy Awards Tell Us Nonfiction about African Americans Frederick Gooding Jr. The American Negro Theatre and the Nonfiction Long Civil RIghts Era Jonathan Shandell Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, Nonfiction the Filmmakers Donald Bogle Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Nonfiction Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films Plays And Pageants From The Life Of The Donald Bogle Negro Nonfiction Edited by Willis Richardson Fiction On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy Black Acting Methods Mel Watkins Edited by Sharrell Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer Nonfiction Nonfiction African Americans on Television: Race- Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin ing for Ratings Ailey Edited by David J. Leonard and Lisa Alvin Ailey and A. Peter Bailey Guerrero Dramabook Nonfiction
Shaded Lives: African American Women Dancing Many Drums: Excavations In and Television African American Dance Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Thomas F. Defrantz Nonfiction Nonfiction
African Americans in Television: Behind I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of the Scenes African American-Owned Television and Gregory Adamo Radio Nonfiction Kristal Brent Zook Nonfiction
Image Credits: NMAAHC / Alan Karchmer