by A. LaFaye, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell
In this bright and cheerful picture book, Dede's family struggles to make ends meet at sharecroppers but are delighted to one day be able to start a new life in Nicodemus, KS, a town built by and for African American settlers after the Civil War (one of multiple communities like it).
I'm sorry to say both of our attempts to visit Nicodemus have been thwarted (by vehicle break-downs and pandemic shut-downs).
This book was published in 2019, so my own children missed out on reading it for lessons, but it would be a great addition to either a Kansas history study or American history in the 1870s.
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