| Growing up in the Germantown section of Philadelphia,
award-winning illustrator Jerry Pinkney didn't have a lot of
opportunities. In America in the 1940s and '50s, African-Americans
were not considered the equal of whites, and the races were kept
separate. Pinkney lived on an all-black street in the middle of a white
neighborhood, and he attended an all-black elementary school. His
father wa |
