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. Galleries June: History 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 - 20 selections on a sheet available in Resources and Activities: 21 - 26 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. 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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 JUNE HISTORY GALLERIES SLAVERY AND FREEDOM This exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom which rests at the core of our nation’s shared history. The exhibition begins in 15th century Africa and Europe, extends through the founding of the United States, and concludes with the nation’s transformation during the Civil War and Reconstruction. H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S S L A V E R Y A N D F R E E D O M , 1 4 0 0 - 1 8 7 7 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 Who Was Frederick Douglass? Biddy Mason Speaks Up April Jones Prince Arisa White and Laura Atkins Nonfiction Nonfiction Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Searching for Sarah Rector: The Who Built the First Free Black Richest Black Girl in America Settlement in Colonial America Tonya Bolden Glennette Tilley Turner Nonfiction Nonfiction Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Jennings Won the Right to Ride in Railroad Diary New York Jerdine Nolen Amy Hill Hearth Fiction Nonfiction Meet Addy: An American Girl (The Forge American Girls Collection Book 1) Laurie Halse Anderson Connie Porter Fiction Fiction Never Caught, the Story of Ona Dayshaun's Gift (City Kids) Judge: Young Readers Edition* (Volume 2) Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Zetta Elliott Van Cleve Fiction Nonfiction The Remarkable Story of George She Came to Slay Moses Horton: Poet Erica Amrstrong Dunbar Don Tate Nonfiction Nonfiction The Bell Rang James E. Ransome Fiction H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S S L A V E R Y A N D F R E E D O M , 1 4 0 0 - 1 8 7 7 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 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists Douglass: An American Slave and the Politics of Violence Frederick Douglass Kelly Carter Jackson Nonfiction Nonfiction Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation They Were Her Property: White Women Damian Duffy and Octavia Butler as Slave Owners in the American South Fiction Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Nonfiction Crossing Ebenezer Creek Tonya Bolden The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery Fiction and the Making of American Capitalism A Wish After Midnight Edward E. Baptist Zetta Elliott Nonfiction Fiction Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Copper Sun Troubled History of America's Sharon M. Draper Universities Fiction Craig Steven Wilder Nonfiction Escape from Texas: A Novel of Slavery and the Texas War of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Independence Fighting for Emancipation in the Sharon M. Draper War for Independence Fiction Alan Gilbert Nonfiction Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from Nonfiction the Rise of the Slave Trade to the An Muslim American Slave: The Life of Age of Revolution Omar Ibn Said Toby Green Nonfiction Omar Ibn Said Nonfiction The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to The Water Dancer Grave in the Building of a Nation Ta-Nehisi Coates Fiction Daina Ramey Berry Nonfiction Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Nonfiction David W. Blight Nonfiction JUNE HISTORY GALLERIES THE ERA OF SEGREGATION This exhibition explores the years following the end of Reconstruction to show how the nation struggled to define the status of African Americans. This period represents a critical era for the United States and for African Americans. It puts to the test whether African Americans would have full citizenship rights after more than 250 years of enslavement. H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S D E F E N D I N G F R E E D O M , D E F I N I N G F R E E D O M T H E E R A O F S E G R E G A T I O N 1 8 7 6 - 1 9 6 8 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 Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan: Freedom Fighters Inventor, Entrepreneur, Hero Andrea Davis Pinkey Joan Dicicco Nonfiction Non Fiction Buzzing with Questions: The Storm Warriors Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Elisa Carbone Fiction Turner Janice N. Harrington Making Our Way Home: The Great Nonfiction Migration and the Black American We Are the Ship the Story of Negro Dream League Baseball Blair Imani Nonfiction Kadir Nelson Nonfiction The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Ruth and the Green Book Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Calvin Alexander Ramsey Steve Sheinkin and Gwen Strauss Nonfiction Fiction Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition Pies From Nowhere: How Georgia Margot Lee Shetterly Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Nonfiction Bus Boycott Dee Romito Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Nonfiction Harriette Gillem Robinet Fiction The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch Chris Barton Through My Eyes Nonfiction Ruby Bridges Nonfiction The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young The Watsons Go to Birmingham Civil Rights Activist Christopher Paul Curtis Cynthia Levinson Fiction Nonfiction H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S D E F E N D I N G F R E E D O M , D E F I N I N G F R E E D O M T H E E R A O F S E G R E G A T I O N 1 8 7 6 - 1 9 6 8 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 March: Book One Medical Apartheid - The Dark John Lewis and Andrew Aydin History Of Medical Experimentation Fiction On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery Harriet A.