Reviews
Still I Rise has received nothing but great reviews. While the book was targeting adults as readers, many educators have used the book as a fun and different way to teach the history of African Americans to young people. Author Russell Banks (Rule of the Bone) says on the back of Still I Rise, "It's not just the history of African-Americans; it's the African-American history of “all” Americans." Other well-known media sources such as Entertainment Weekly have praised the book, stating, "From the arrival of the first slaves in colonial Virginia to the Million Man March on Washington, Still I Rise is an amazing condensed cartoon chronicle of African Americans that's aimed primarily at adults and prefaced with an introductory history of black cartoonists...the Lairds have packed an epic quantity of information into this engaging, well-written volume.”
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