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  2. Black and White (picture book) - Wikipedia

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    Black and White is a 1990 postmodern children's picture book by David Macaulay. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company , it received mixed reviews upon its release. It was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1991.

  3. Anti-literacy laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1863 painting of a man reading the Emancipation Proclamation.. Educators and slaves in the South found ways to both circumvent and challenge the law. John Berry Meachum, for example, moved his school out of St. Louis, Missouri when that state passed an anti-literacy law in 1847, and re-established it as the Floating Freedom School on a steamship on the Mississippi River, which was beyond the ...

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  5. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    They use black tablets for the children in the schools, and write upon them along the long side, not the broadside, writing with a white material from the left to the right. [ 13 ] The first classroom uses of large blackboards are difficult to date, but they were used for music education and composition in Europe as far back as the 16th century ...

  6. Education during the slave period in the United States

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    Margaret Crittendon Douglass, a white woman who published a memoir after she was imprisoned in Virginia in 1853 for teaching free black children to read. [31] Catherine and Jane Deveaux, a black mother and daughter who, with the Catholic nun Mathilda Beasley, ran underground schools in Savannah, Georgia in the early- to mid-1800s. [32]

  7. Batman Black and White - Wikipedia

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    Batman Black and White refers to the comic book limited series published by DC Comics featuring 8-page black and white Batman stories. Volumes 1, 4 and 5 of the series feature all-new stories (published in 1996, 2013–14, and 2020–21, respectively), while Vol. 2 and 3 contain stories from the back-up feature of the Batman: Gotham Knights comic book.

  8. The Sneetches and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    The 1954 Redbook version of Zaks. In "The Zax", a North-going Zax and a South-going Zax meet face to face on the Prairie of Prax. Each asks the other to make way, but neither budges, saying it is against their upbringing to move any other way.

  9. Calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Calligraphy (from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía) 'beautiful writing') is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument.