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Claire Hartfield

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Claire Hartfield is the 2019 Coretta Scott King Author Award winner and LA Times Book Award Finalist for A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (Clarion 2018) This book has also been honored as a Junior Library Guild Choice, a 2019 Illinois Reading Council Top Book, and a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2018. Me and Uncle Romie (Dial Books for Young Children 2002) is a historical fiction picture book based on the life and art of world-renowned collage artist, Romare Bearden. The book received national honors (favorable review in the NYT Book Review, Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book of the Year, Junior Library Guild Choice, one of New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing) and has been reprinted in three textbooks. Hartfield's career has centered on providing underprivileged children with opportunity to achieve their potential through education. After graduating from Yale University and University of Chicago Law School, she oversaw development of school desegregation plans for the cities of Chicago and Rockford, Illinois. More recently, she led a non-profit organization that develops leaders for elementary and secondary education. She is currently Board Chair and a senior consultant for one of Chicago's highest performing charter schools. One of Claire's greatest pleasures has been raising her own three daughters, Emily, Caroline and Corinne. It was through reading to her girls that she experienced first hand, the ability of books to transform a child's understanding of the world and their place in it. The magical and powerful role of books in the life of children drew her into writing. Claire is a lifelong resident of Chicago.

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A Few Red Drops

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

By: Claire Hartfield

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins

Release date: 02-01-18

Language: English

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