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Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Raúl Colón

This picture-book biography introduces African American opera singer Leontyne Price. It begins with her 1927 birth in a small Mississippi town, where her mother worked as a midwife and her father at a sawmill. As a child, Leontyne listened to the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday radio broadcasts, while knowing that Black opera singers were absent. The book centers on Price’s life as an opera performer.

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Themes
History · Music · Racism And Prejudice · Work And Careers
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published
December 23, 2014
Pages
40
ISBN-13
9780375856068
Language
English
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