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Ms. Hannam from Anchorage AK is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Getting Black America on the Library Shelves

Help me give my students access to library books that fully represent and celebrate Black American culture and history.

  • $367 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Limited resources aside, my students come to school bright and eager to engage in learning. Whether they are learning English as a second language, helping out their families, or just being kids, they are glad to be at school each and every day.

Many of our students may not show their strengths in test scores or grades, but their strengths of compassion, community, and family are obvious every day.

Older students frequently use school materials when reading to younger siblings at home and are seen helping out on the bus and playground. They can be downright inspiring.

My Project

Students need to see themselves, learn about themselves, and be themselves in the school library. If a Black child enters a library and sees only white faces and light hair looking at them from the pages of the books on display, they surely will not feel like they belong in this place. If, when they seek out information for African-American history month, they find only a few dully colored, print-oriented books on Martin Luther King and Ruby Bridges, their learning is limited. If all the historical fiction they have access to focuses on the negative concepts of Black in America's past, they do not see the full story.

All my students need to see the vibrant imagery, rich storytelling, and full history of Black culture through the books they are able to access and take home from the school library.

Exposure for all students to diversity is a strong tool for social justice. What better place to start this exposure than in the school library, a cultural space for all.

Ms. Hannam
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Alphabet of Black Cultures • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery • Amazon Business $19.00 1 $19.00
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
White Water • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Denene Millner Books) • Amazon Business $14.56 1 $14.56
Layla's Happiness • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Bunheads • Amazon Business $13.53 1 $13.53
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History • Amazon Business $13.27 1 $13.27
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Don't Touch My Hair! • Amazon Business $11.38 1 $11.38
Hair Love • Amazon Business $10.96 1 $10.96
Richard Wright and the Library Card • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $10.04 1 $10.04
Texting with Black History: Martin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, and Aretha Franklin Biography Book for Kids (Texting with History Collection) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Ashes (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
Forge • Amazon Business $6.54 1 $6.54
Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59

Materials cost

$273.63

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$4.10

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$311.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.03

Total project goal

$366.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$366.86

5 Donors

-$304.43

Donations toward project cost

-$258.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.66

match offer

-$62.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$53.06

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.36

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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