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Just Us Books, a publishing house focused on African American children and young adult books, is founded by Wade and Cheryl Hudson. 1991. Tom Low and Philip Lee co-found Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children's book publisher in the United States. 1992. The African American Children's Book Fair started in Philadelphia by Vanesse Lloyd ...
While African-American book publishers have been active in the United States since the second decade of the 19th century, the 1960s and 1970s saw a proliferation of publishing activity, with the establishment of many new publishing houses, an increase in the number of titles published, and significant growth in the number of African-American bookstores.
Black Classic Press (BCP) is an African-American book publishing company, founded by W. Paul Coates in 1978. Since then, BCP has published original titles by notable authors including Walter Mosley, John Henrik Clarke, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and Dorothy B. Porter, as well as reissuing significant works by Tony Martin, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Blyden ...
Imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group [2] Salariya Book Company: Brighton: England: United Kingdom 1989 Scholastic: New York City: New York: United States 1920 Clifford the Big Red Dog. The Magic School Bus. Goosebumps. Simon & Schuster: New York City: New York: United States 1924 Skyhorse Publishing: Tamarind Books: United Kingdom ...
Simon & Schuster LLC (/ ˈ ʃ uː s t ər /, SHOO-stər) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. [5]
Lee & Low was founded in 1991 by Chinese Americans Tom Low and Philip Lee as a children's book publisher specializing in books featuring people of color and one of the few minority-owned publishing companies in the United States. [2] Low says, "There was a void in children's books.
William Paul Coates (born July 4, 1946) [1] is an American publisher, printer and community activist. In 1978, he founded the Black Classic Press (BCP), devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about individuals of African descent, particularly previously out-of-print books, and he also established the printing company BCP Digital Printing in 1995. [2]
Broadside Press was founded in 1965 by the poet librarian Dudley Randall as a showcase for African American authors. Early in the Press' history, Randall began by publishing 8.5x11 broadsides of single poems. [3] Broadside Press was launched with publication of his poem "The Ballad of Birmingham."