Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

Her reasons for including specific experiences and events in Voice of Freedom.

Conveying “emotional weight” and “factual burdens” via poetic style.Crafting authentic voice and expression.Deciding when to use 1st person or 3rd person point of view.The art and science of writing biographies.The intersections of her writing and research processes involving primary and secondary multimedia sources, , &.Her spiritual connection to Fannie Lou Hamer, &.The need to preserve Fannie Lou Hamer’s legacy.The connections between Voice of Freedom and her 2010 book, The Beatitudes.Her inspiration for writing Voice of Freedom.To find out more about Carole, access teaching guides and videos, and get to know her and her son, Jeffery, a poet, illustrator and co-creator of You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen (2016), visit. Gregory Christie, among many others.Ĭarole is currently a Professor of English at Fayetteville State University, where she works with current and future teachers as well as aspiring writers. Other critically acclaimed or award-winning nonfiction picturebooks include Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (2021), illustrated by Floyd Cooper and Freedom in Congo Square (2016), illustrated by R. These two picturebook biographies follow a legacy of award-winning biographies, such as Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2006), illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Becoming Billie Holiday (2008), illustrated by Floyd Cooper, Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library (2015), illustrated by Eric Velasquez, and Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America (2015), illustrated by Jamey Christoph. Her most recent picturebook biographies in verse are the 2021 Newbery Honor, BOX (2020), illustrated by Michele Wood, and the 2021 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul(2020), illustrated by Frank Morrison.

Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford