A newspaper boy hawks copies of the Chicago Defender. Library of Congress February 5, 2021 When Black kids – shut out from the whitewashed world of children’s literature – took matters into their own hands Paige Gray, Savannah College of Art and Design At the turn of the 20th century, with few children’s books featuring Black characters, one young editor implored his peers to ‘Let us make the world know that we are living.’
