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Mother of Rock n Roll: the Rosetta Tharpe story
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a hit from the start. She was a musical prodigy who played guitar to church crowds at 6 years old. By 20, she performed in New York’s famous Cotton Club, and by 1938 she signed a record deal with Decca that produced hit after hit. She pre-dated Elvis who was fascinated…
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road: the Alice Harris Story
Unless you’ve spent time studying world history, chances are you don’t know a lot about the Congo in central Africa. When Alice Seeley Harris first landed there as a missionary in 1898, she didn’t know much about it either. But all that was about to change. This is a story of greed, cruelty, the darkness…
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The Other (Sometimes Forgotten) Half
Trying to teach history to multi-cultural middle schoolers taught me one thing–we are all tired of reading about OWD (old, white dudes). They have a place in history, but they shouldn’t have the only place. History is more than government, politics, and owning things. It shapes our current climate and attitudes about everything we do….
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