We Have Tomorrow (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Arna Bontemps
- First Published: 1945
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s–1945
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: E. Simms Campbell, Mildred E. Blount, Horace R. Cayton, Beatrice Johnson, Dean Dixon, Sylvestre C. Watkins, Benjamin Davis, Emmett M. May, Hazel Scott, James E. LuValle
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, Social action, Family or family life, Racism, Music or musicians, Education or educators, Art or artists, Science or scientists, American Dream, Military life or service, Fashion, Nursing or nurses, Biography, Sociology, Conducting or conductors
- Locales: United States
Form and Content
We Have Tomorrow consists of twelve essays about successful African Americans who in 1945, the year of the book’s publication, were in their twenties or early thirties. Arna Bontemps selected men and women whose names would probably not have been famous in their time, nor familiar to modern readers, but who had distinguished themselves in their fields in an era when prejudice and segregation often truncated opportunity. Each essay includes a photograph of the subject, often in his or her workplace. Bontemps stresses their professionalism, remarking...
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