Step by Step: A Memoir of Living the American Dream

Step by Step: A Memoir of Living the American DreamIn 1944, Bertie Bowmana poor, impressionable thirteen year oldheard South Carolina senator Burnet Maybank declare: If you all ever get up to Washington, D. C., drop by and see me! Bertie took those words to heart, and when he arrived in Washington, Senator Maybank, surprisingly true to his word, saw to it that the young runaway had a place to stay and a steady incomeearned by sweeping the Capitol steps for two dollars a week. Bowman would rise to

afraid of the watery deep

but only a crack

by popular author Margaret Cardillo (Just Being Audrey) and bestselling artist Zachariah OHora (Wolfie the Bunny)

collage and the monochrome

Philip is not a detective

depicted social roles

“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs

making it a strategic victory for the North and an opportune time for President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

Beyond a Boundary

it’s the ideal opportunity for them to get what they want

But when the only avenue for justice seems to be negotiating with ambitious Governor Nelson Rockefeller

John Mbiti’s ‘African Religions & Philosophy’ (1969)