Full name: Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song

Authors: Kathryn Erskine, Charly Palmer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Non Fiction, Biographies, Picture books, Music, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374303013 0374303010

Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid―a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally beside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and before the United Nations. Similar books: When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown Mahalia Jackson by Nina Nolan Ballet for Martha by Jan Greenberg Strange Fruit by Gary Golio Before There Was Mozart by Lesa Cline-Ransome The Legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford Leontyne Price by Carole Boston Weatherford She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton I Dissent by Debbie Levy Rosa by Nikki Giovanni Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh She Persisted Around the World by Chelsea Clinton The Oldest Student by Rita Lorraine Hubbard The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter Planting Stories by Anika Aldamuy Denise Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone The Case for Loving by Selina Alko Our Children Can Soar by Michelle Cook