Children the journal of the Association for Library Service to Children Libraries● May 2017 ISSN 1542-9806 & Digital Supplement 2017 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Jacqueline Woodson What Gets Left Behind: Stories from the Great Migration Table Contents of Digital Supplement ● May 2017 Editor Sharon Verbeten, De Pere, Wisconsin Editorial Advisory Committee Randall Enos, Chair, Middletown, New York Sarah Park Dahlen, Maple Grove, Minnesota 2 Introduction Jeremiah Henderson, Rio Rancho, New Mexico Judy Lasco, Chardon, Ohio Rick Samuelson, Henrico, Virginia Virginia Walter, Los Angeles, California 3 Lecture Nina Lindsay, ALSC President, Ex Officio, Oakland, California What Gets Left Behind: Sharon Verbeten, Editor, Ex Officio, De Pere, Wisconsin Executive Director Stories from the Great Migration Aimee Strittmatter Managing Editor 7 Poetry Contest for South Carolina Laura Schulte-Cooper Website Students www.ala.org/alsc Circulation Children and Libraries (ISSN 1542-9806) is a refereed journal published four times per year by 8 About May Hill Arbuthnot the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. 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The release date will depend on The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI the lecture date, which varies from year to year. Z39.48-1992. Copyright © 2017 American Library Association Happy Reading! All materials in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scientific or educational advancement granted Sharon Verbeten by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. For other photocopying, reprint- CAL Editor ing, or translating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions. Introduction The 2017 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture, “What Gets Left Behind: Stories from the Great Migration,” was delivered by Jacqueline Woodson on April 1, at the W. W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall, in the Darla Moore School of Business, at the University of South Carolina. Jacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National and Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from Book Award winner for her New York college with a B.A. in English. She lives Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl with her family in Brooklyn, New York. Arbuthnot Committee: (l-r) Jessica Tackett MacDonald; Ellen Dreaming. The author of more than two dozen books for young readers, she is The 2017 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Hunter Ruffin, chair; Susan Person (on screen); Danielle a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a Lecture Committee selected the South Shapiro; and Barbara Genco. recipient of the NAACP Image Award, Carolina State Library and the city of a two-time Coretta Scott King Award Columbia, South Carolina, to serve as the And I do want to change the world—one winner, and served a term as the Young host site for the lecture. reader at a time.’” People’s Poet Laureate for the Poetry Foundation. In the application to host the lecture, Members of ALSC’s 2017 Arbuthnot Honor Denise Lyons, deputy director of the Lecture Committee were: Ellen Hunter Woodson writes about characters from South Carolina State Library observed, Ruffin, chair, University of Southern a variety of races, ethnicities, and social “Ms. Woodson…writes about situations Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; classes. Her books feature strong female and people…involving serious issues. Barbara A. Genco, Brooklyn, New York; characters and she often writes about The issues are not easy; they involve Jessica Tackett MacDonald, Boston Public friendship between girls. race, ethnicity, sexual abuse, and sex- Library; Susan Person, Mamie Doud ual orientation. Woodson herself stated, Eisenhower Public Library, Broomfield, Born on February 12, 1963, in Columbus, ‘I can’t write about nice, easy topics Colorado; and Danielle A. Shapiro, Ohio, Woodson grew up in Greenville, S.C., because that won’t change the world. Brooklyn (New York) Public Library. The podium at the W. W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall, location of the 2017 Arbuthnot Lecture 2 May 2017 • Arbuthnot Honor Lecture • Children and Libraries • Digital Supplement Lecture What Gets Left Behind: Stories from the Great Migration JACQUELINE WOODSON |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| “There is a balm in Gilead, to make the Crow cars. We left in over-burdened, sec- wounded whole. ond-hand station wagons. We scraped There is a balm in Gilead, to heal the sin- money together and bought tickets on sick soul . .” Greyhound buses. Sometimes we left in the cover of night, for fear of getting What happens to a dream deferred? found out. Sometimes, we told no one Does it dry up we were going. We were the foundation Like a raisin in the sun? of this state, the workforce. We were the Or fester like a sore – planters and pickers of cotton, the horse- And then run? drawn carriage drivers turned chauffeurs. Does it stink like rotten meat? We were the wet nurses turned nannies. Or crust and sugar over – We were the enslaved turned maids and Like a syrupy sweet? butlers. We were the ones not allowed to read turned teachers, the ones turned Maybe it just sags away from white hospitals turned roots Like a heavy load. women and midwives and doctors. We were the doctors not allowed to practice Or does it explode? here, the teachers in book-less schools, —Langston Hughes the sharecroppers eternally ‘in debt’ to landowners. What would the south be It is April 1, 2017, and I stand before you without us? on this first evening of National Poetry Jacqueline Woodson Month as someone’s mother, someone’s When he was in his twenties, my great daughter, someone’s life-partner, another uncle Talmus left Aiken, South Carolina.