Activities with Coretta Scott King Award
Winners
Activities by Nancy Polette © 2002
CORNROWS
by Camille Yarbrough. ll1us. by Carole Byard. Coward-McCann, 1979.
1980 Winner
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Two children watch their Great Grandmaw braid their mother's hair and learn the
meaning of many comrow styles. She tells of Mrican symbols of courage, honor, wisdom, love and strength.
Then she tells of the slavers who came and put the people
in chains, but the spirit of the symbols lives on in the accomplishments of many
Mrican Americans, Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Katherine
Dunham, Langston Hughes and more. |
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| ACTIVITY:Substitute one of the qualities Great Grandma told about for "dreams"
in this Langston Hughes poem. |
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Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird |