The Legacy Series - Volume 1. Civil Right Leaders & Cultural Icons (en Inglés) - Lamont Spence

Twenty-five lives. One enduring legacy.

From Harriet Tubman to Hank Aaron, from Frederick Douglass to Barack Obama - these are the men and women whose courage and conviction shaped the long arc of Black history in America. Civil Rights Leaders & Cultural Icons is the first volume in The Legacy Series from Spence Heritage Press: a coloring journey designed for senior readers, reminiscence groups, and anyone who wants to sit awhile with a name they remember.

Each of the twenty-five featured figures receives the same careful three-page treatment: a clean, full-page portrait drawn for coloring; a large-print biography of the life that shaped a movement; a five-stop timeline marking the moments that mattered; a reflection prompt that opens the door to memory; and a "Did You Know?" fact that surprises even longtime admirers.

FEATURING: Hank Aaron, Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Arthur Ashe, Josephine Baker, Harry Belafonte, Claudette Colvin, Frederick Douglass, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Kamala Harris, Katherine Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Thurgood Marshall, Barack Obama, Rosa Parks, A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, Bayard Rustin, Harriet Tubman, Madam C.J. Walker, Ida B. Wells, and Malcolm X.

Designed for the way older readers actually use a book:

For the family room. For the senior center. For the church group. For the reader who simply wants to sit awhile with a name they remember.

Caregivers, activity directors, and family members will find this volume equally at home in one-on-one visits, group reminiscence sessions, classroom enrichment, Black History Month programming, and quiet afternoons at home. Each portrait is a doorway. Each timeline is a thread back to a particular year, a particular block, a particular kitchen table where the news was first heard.

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Color slowly. Remember well.

The Legacy Series from Spence Heritage Press celebrates the lives, achievements, and enduring influence of African American history-makers. Volume One opens the series with the Civil Rights Leaders and Cultural Icons whose names shaped the second half of the American twentieth century - and whose work still shapes the present.