A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
Ray Anthony Shepard
Using verse, the book profiles six Black Americans from different periods: Barack Obama, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Ona Judge, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ida B. Wells. It considers how each resisted racism and pursued justice, while comparing how much has changed for Black Americans since the country’s founding. One portrait concerns Judge’s escape from enslavement by America’s first president; another reaches Obama, the first Black president.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
