A Conversation with Author Carole Boston Weatherford
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Channel: Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning · 2018 · Education
Carole Boston Weatherford's love for writing developed at an early age. The award-winning author composed her first poem in the first grade and soon after she began publishing her poems with the help of her father, a printing teacher. In her stories Birmingham, 1963 and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom Weatherford brings the pages of history alive through stories, poems, and pictures. During this discussion with moderator Maria Salvadore, Weatherford shares her unique talent of making music with the language of poetry and talks about developing her own voice as both a poet and author through the celebration of family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles (recorded in 2008 at C. D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, VA).
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