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N M A A H C S U M M E R R E A D I N G C H A L L E N G E "READING THROUGH THE GALLERIES" SUMMER 2020 GRADES 3 TO 12 AND EDUCATORS Join the NMAAHC in summer 2020 for a new digital experience, “Reading Through the Galleries,” the NMAAHC Summer Reading Challenge! Created for 3rd - 12th grade students and educators, the book selections are curated to provide enjoyment and enrichment about African American history and culture. The “Reading Through the Galleries” runs from June through August. ity Galleries July: Commun N M A A H C THEME AND ACTIVITIES S U M M E R R E A D I N G C H A L L E N G E For 2020, the book selection is "READING THROUGH THE GALLERIES" based on the galleries at NMAAHC. Read your way through The National Museum of African the permanent galleries and the American History and Culture temporary exhibition. debuts for 2020 for a new digital experience, the NMAAHC Each month between June and Summer Reading Club. This is a August, NMAAHC educators will self-guided program for 3rd - 12th provide a book list based on one grade students and their of the permanent galleries: educators to read suggested History (June), Community (July), selections by NMAAHC educators. and Culture (August). The lists will feature books suitable for various grades as well as educators. The literature selections consist of fiction and non-fiction, and are DIVISIONS chosen for enjoyment and enrichment about African Sojourners (Grades 3 - 5) American history." Navigators (Grades 6 - 8) Innovators (Grades 9 - 12) Educators (Grades 3 - 12) READING LIST SUBMISSIONS TABLE OF CONENTS Each month, you can submit your How to Participate: 2 - 3 reading list and earn a certificate. You can keep track of your Book Lists : 6 - 22 selections on a sheet available in Resources and Activities: 23 - 28 the resource section or in a personal notebook. You can find the submission link on our website. H O W T O F I N D B O O K S W H A T C A N I R E A D ? You might not currently be able There are various types of to visit your local library. Instead, literature available to you, we suggest you read using digital including: alternatives (like audiobooks), or purchase books from local small Fiction businesses if you’re able. Non-Fiction Memoirs You can choose books that are Poetry not on our list as well as long as Screen and Stage Plays they fit the theme for the month. Novels and Novellas You can also read books you Biographies already own – the goal is just to Journal Articles read books you haven’t read Anthologies before. Graphic Novels Documentaries (If you prefer a more visual experience.) D I G I T A L O P T I O N S P U R C H A S I N G O P T I O N S These platforms may be available Here are links to independent through your local library, school, bookstores to help you support or through self-subscription. This local businesses in your list is not extensive. community, and also the Smithsonian Store. This list is not OVERDRIVE extensive. (HTTPS://WWW.OVERDRIVE.COM/) KANOPY (HTTPS://WWW.KANOPY.COM/) INDIEBOUND (HTTPS://WWW.INDIEBOUND.ORG/) HOOPLA (HTTPS://WWW.HOOPLADIGITAL.COM/) BOOKSHOP OPENLIBRARY (HTTPS://BOOKSHOP.ORG/) (HTTPS://OPENLIBRARY.ORG/) RBDIGITAL SMITHSONIAN STORE - BOOKS (HTTPS://WWW.RECORDEDBOOKS.COM) (HTTPS://WWW.SMITHSONIANSTORE.COM/) TUMBLEBOOKLIBRARY (HTTPS://WWW.TUMBLEBOOKS.COM/) INTERNET ARCHIVES (HTTPS://ARCHIVE.ORG/) "READING THROUGH THE GALLERIES" In the year 2020, we would like you to explore our galleries through literature. Each month the club will highlight one of NMAAHC three galleries: History, Community, and Culture. The book lists will reflect the themes, objects, and narratives found within the exhibits. JUNE HISTORY GALLERIES JULY COMMUNITY GALLERIES AUGUST CULTURE GALLERIES Building and Permanent Gallery Images: NMAAHC/Alan Karchmer We Return Fighting Exhibit Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture JULY COMMUNITY GALLERIES MAKING A WAY OUT OF NO WAY In this exhibition, themed stories show how African Americans crafted possibilities in a world that denied them opportunities. Taking its inspiration from a popular African American expression, Making a Way Out of No Way explores themes of agency, creativity, and resilience through personal stories of African Americans who challenged racial oppression and discrimination and created ways out of “no way.” C O M M U N I T Y G A L L E R I E S M A K I N G A W A Y O U T O F N O W A Y S O J O U R N E R S N A V I G A T O R S T H I R D T O F I F T H G R A D E S I X T H T O E I G H T H G R A D E Robert Churchwell: Writing News, Making Biddy Mason Speaks Up History: A Savannah Green Story Arisa White and Laura Atkins Gloria Respress-Churchwell Nonfiction Fiction The Women Who Caught the Babies Take a Picture of Me James Van Der Zee Eloise Greenfield Andrea Loney Nonfiction Nonfiction The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Remember The Journey to Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights School Integration Movement Toni Morrison Teri Kanefield Nonfiction Nonfiction The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Maggie L. Walker: Pioneering Banker and Entrepreneur, Hero Community Leader Joan Dicicco Candice F. Ransom Nonfiction Nonfiction The Undefeated Elijah Of Buxton Kwame Alexander Christopher Curtis Fiction Fiction The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Dr. Patricia Bath Vivien Thomas Julia Finley Mosca Gwendolyn Hooks Nonfiction Nonfiction Mary McLeod Bethune Black Pioneers of Science and Invention Eloise Greenfield Louis Haber Nonfiction Nonfiction Sweet Dreams, Sarah Who Was Muhammad Ali? Vivian Kirkfield James Buckley Jr. Nonfiction Nonfiction Bedtime Inspirational Stories: 50 Amazing Black People Who Changed the World (Volume 1) L. A. Amber Nonfiction C O M M U N I T Y G A L L E R I E S M A K I N G A W A Y O U T O F N O W A Y I N N O V A T O R S E D U C A T O R S N I N T H T O T W E L V E G R A D E T H I R D T O T W E L V E Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Phillip Hoose Popular Black History in Postwar America Nonfiction E. James West Nonfiction Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories African American Religions, 1500-2000: Ellen S. Levine Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom Nonfiction Sylvester A. Johnson Nonfiction Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of Nathan McCall African Americans and Politics During the Nonfiction Age of Roosevelt Jill Watts To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Nonfiction Wells Mia Bay The History of Black Business in America: Nonfiction Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray Volume 1, To 1865 and the Story of a Forgotten Era Juliet E. K. Walker Nonfiction Elizabeth Dowling Taylor Nonfiction Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Women's Health Activism in Black Americans: A Reconsideration of America, 1890-1950 Race and Economics Susan L. Smith John Sibley Butler Nonfiction Nonfiction America's Historically Black Colleges and The Black Press: New Literary and Universities: A Narrative History, 1837-2009 Historical Essays Bobby L. Lovett Edited by Todd Vogel Nonfiction Nonfiction JULY COMMUNITY GALLERIES POWER OF PLACE A sense of place has deeply shaped African American history and culture. A multifaceted range of African American communities and identities have formed and changed in all corners of the country and in turn influenced the regions around them. The Power of Place exhibition showcases ten “place studies.” Each provides intimate views into distinct moments of the African American experience. JULY COMMUNITY GALLERIES POWER OF PLACE 1.The Defender: Making a Black Metropolis in Chicago, Illinois a place story of the great migration and the black press 2.Mae Reeves’s Millinery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a place story of creativity, community and entrepreneurship 3.Angola, The Louisiana State Penitentiary, a place story of the plantation prison system in the Deep South 4.Family, Farms and Land in Lyles Station, Indiana, a place story of free black pioneers and farmers in the Midwest 5.Black Routes West, place stories from the long black presence in the American West 6.Oak Bluffs, a place story of African American leisure in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts 7.Riot and Resilience in Tulsa, Oklahoma a place story of a race riot’s enduring legacies 8.Rice Fields in the Low Country of South Carolina a place story about enslavement and the transformation of an American landscape 9.H.C. Anderson’s Greenville, MS, an insider’s photographic portrait of black Mississippi during segregation 10.Park Jam, a place story of the birth of Hip Hop in the Bronx, New York C O M M U N I T Y G A L L E R I E S P O W E R O F P L A C E S O J O U R N E R S N A V I G A T O R S T H I R D T O F I F T H G R A D E S I X T H T O E I G H T G R A D E Circle Unbroken Black Pioneers: An Untold Story Margot Theis Raven William Loren Katz Nonfiction Nonfiction Great Migration A Long Hard Journey: The Story of Eloise Greenfield the Pullman Porter Nonfiction Patricia and Fredrick McKissack Nonfiction When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage Laban Carrick Hill William Loren Katz Nonfiction Nonfiction Tiara's Hat Parade Journey to a Promised Land : A Story Kelly Starling Lyons of the Exodusters Nonfiction Allison Lassieur Fiction What Is Hip-Hop? Eric Morse Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Nonfiction Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson Deena Misses Her Mom Henry Clay Anderson and Clifton L.