Book Review: Newspapers and Butter Pecan Ice Ice Cream: Mrs. Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star

 Newspapers and Butter Pecan Ice Ice Cream: Mrs. Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star, by Amy Helene Forss, illustrated by Gina Tolstedt, United States, 2017.

This is a children's story but tells and important story.  Mildred Brown founded the Black newspaper in Omaha, the Omaha Star.  She was also a supporter of civil rights.  She used the newspaper to hold accountable businesses that would not hire African Americans.  This included the bus company, and an ice cream parlor.  She was also a mentor to young people who later became activists in their own right.  This included Rudy Smith, John Pierce, Cathy Hughes, Preston Love Jr. and Michael Adams.  These people became successful and social activists in their own right.

Book Review: Your Bridge to History

 Your Bridge to History: A Black Votes Matter "Face to Face with Black History Tour" Children's Book by Portia Love and Preston Love Jr., illustrated by Regina Jeanpierre, Preston Publishing, www.BlackVotesMatterUSA.com, 2019.

These is a short book about a tour taken by youth to the south, where they can experience first hand the history of Black America.  It starts in Memphis where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered and where he gave his last speech.  Then to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham which was bombed and several young women killed who were there with the parents working for Civil Rights.  In Birmingham was a struggle for voting rights and the Selma (Edmund Pettus) Bridge march, which took place three times.  Finally in 1965 the Voting Fights Act was passed.  

In Montgomery they were taught about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott.  The boycott lead to harship but eventually the bus company had to give in.  Also in Montgomery is a muserum that documents lynchings.

In Atlanta is the King Center where Martin Luther King Jr. is buried.  There is a depiction of his life.