![]() ![]() ![]() They first travel to local churches and school performance venues but later expand their travel tour to include music halls across the United States and Europe. Jones creates the band in 1939, and the girls enthusiastically make the band a part of their lives. Laurence Clifton Jones founded the Piney Woods Country Life School, a home for African American orphans, in Jackson, MS, in 1909. This informational picture book tells the background and history of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm all-girl interracial swing band of the mid-1940s. Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. More resources are available at the Women’s History Month website, including material from The Library of Congress, National Archives, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and National Endowment for the Humanities.ĭeans, Karen. ![]() International Literacy Association’s Children’s Literature and Reading SIG presents new titles featuring the memorable contributions made by women both historical and contemporary. The contributions of women today and throughout history have had an impact on every corner of society, from family life to politics and so much more. ![]()
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