Freedom in Congo Square is a 2016 poetic nonfiction picture book by Carole Boston Weatherford, and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. It was published...
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Congo Square (French: Place Congo) is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana...
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Carole Boston Weatherford (redirect from BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom)
selections: Before John Was a Jazz Giant (2008), Freedom in Congo Square (2016), Voice of Freedom (2016), In Your Hands (2017), Schomburg (2017), How Sweet...
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Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2017) text by Carole Boston Weatherford Freedom in Congo Square (Little Bee Books, 2016) Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood...
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Republic of the Congo, also known as the DR Congo, the DRC, or Congo-Kinshasa, is a country in Central Africa. By land area the Congo is the second-largest...
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Caldecott Medal (category Awards established in 1938)
in 1971. There have been between one and five honor books named each year. To be eligible for a Caldecott, the book must be published in English, in the...
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Kinshasa (redirect from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
and agencies. Covering 9,965 square kilometers, Kinshasa stretches along the southern shores of the Pool Malebo, on the Congo River. It forms an expansive...
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Coretta Scott King Award (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
first author award was given in 1970. In 1974, the award was expanded to honor illustrators as well as authors. Starting in 1978, runner-up Author Honor...
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Charlotte Zolotow Award (category Awards established in 1998)
writing in a picture book published in the United States during the preceding year. By contrast, the Caldecott Medal is for outstanding illustration in a picture...
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Mardi Gras Indians (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
enslaved and free Black people to congregate on Sunday afternoons at Congo Square where they performed music and religious practices. An article from the...
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comprising present-day Congo were the Forest peoples whose Stone Age culture was slowly replaced by Bantu tribes. The main Bantu tribe living in the region were...
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murderous thugs ... were tolerated." In addition to his freedom, in exchange for his service, Congo received 2 arpents (0.68 ha; 1.7 acres) of land located...
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Yacub Addy (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., titled as Let Freedom Swing. They performed the piece "Ajeseke" from Congo Square. Over the years as leader of various ensembles...
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critics of the Congo Free State and its atrocities. Leopold was very astute in using the media to support his virtual private control of the Congo. British...
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Kingdom of Kongo (redirect from Kingdom of Congo)
do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern...
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Iraq War (redirect from Operation Iraqi Freedom)
Iraqi Freedom" would be replaced by "Operation New Dawn". On 18 April, US and Iraqi forces killed Abu Ayyub al-Masri the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq in a joint...
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The Congo, short for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is an equatorial country located in central Africa. As of July 2018, the CIA World Factbook...
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Patrice Lumumba (category Deaths by firearm in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960...
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involvement of the Belgian Congo (the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) in World War II began with the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940. Despite...
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Africa (redirect from Politics in Africa)
helping fund war in Congo?". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2018. "Congo war-driven crisis...
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Internet censorship (redirect from Internet Freedom)
or after elections in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Malawi, and Kazakhstan. Local shutdowns are frequently ordered in India during times of...
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Central African Republic (redirect from Civil unrest in the Central African Republic)
country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the...
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freedom of expression. The origins of contemporary drum circles in North America can be traced back to Congo Square in New Orleans, a pivotal site in...
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bodhi tree Vanuatu — leaves of namele tree Historically Republic of the Congo — palm leaves Myanmar (1974–2010) — rice plant Guadeloupe (overseas department...
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Basenji (category Dog breeds originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
original foundation stock came from Congo. The dogs are also known to the Azande of South Sudan as ango angari. In Swahili, another Bantu language, from...
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List of national flags of sovereign states (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
from "Congo, Democratic Republic of the/flag". The World Factbook (2024 ed.). CIA. Whitney Smith, Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the...
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Tremé (category Neighborhoods in New Orleans)
for some time, then in the 1970s the city created Louis Armstrong Park in the area and named Congo Square within Armstrong Park. In 1994, the New Orleans...
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artistic works situated in public places. Freedom of panorama is very limited in the copyright law of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Article 28 permits...
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Scramble for Africa (redirect from Imperialism in Africa)
underlying many nations' strategies. In the early 1880s, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was exploring the region along the Congo River for France, at the same time...
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Bamboula (category Dance in Louisiana)
slaves congregated on the Congo Square to the edge of the area of the French Quarter of New Orleans to dance the bamboula. In 1848, the American composer...
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