Explaining history to young children is not easy when that history is filled with struggle and violence.
Coretta Scott King award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney has written numerous books about African Americans for children and young adults, including award-winning picture books illustrated by her husband Brian Pinkney.
Andrea Pinkney, along with Virginia Shearer, co-curator for The High Museum’s new exhibit “Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Children’s Books,” joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom.
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