Before Instagram, there were picture books with a complement of editorial copy that could be considered the literary version of today’s popular social networking site.
One of those books, I consider one of the most enlightening books that I’ve read on Africans in America, is “A Pictorial History of the Negro in America,” edited by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer – Third Revision, by C. Eric Lincoln and Milton Meltzer. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York
One of my favorites since the 3rd grade; I brought the 380-page book to school for the popular classroom infotainment segment called “Show and Tell.”
Now that I’m looking at this book again through “new millennium” eyes, I realize picture history books of this type will most definitely become popular again, if they haven’t already, to appeal to a new generation of readers.
Do you have a favorite history picture book? Please share in the comment section below! Thank you for reading!
Art ∩ Mel 
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