BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Looking at the World Through the Eyes of a Child. The female protagonist in Tar Beach is eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot, a freedom fighter by heart. Cassie lives with her Mommy, her Daddy, and her baby brother Be Be in an apartment building where the George Washington Bridge is visible.
The hood. Harlem, New York. Click on the image to be taken to the websource.
The George Washington Bridge, known to the locals as GW Bridge. Click on the image to be taken to the websource.
Cassie narrates that the stars fell down and lifted her up above the George Washington Bridge. From there, it becomes a series of flight in which Cassie flies over certain places and claims them as her own so her family can enjoy simple privileges that they don’t have access to.
I can fly – yes, fly. Me, Cassie Louise Lightfoot, only eight years old and in the third grade, and I can fly. That means I am free to go whenever I want for the rest of my life…
…It’s very easy, anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.
A story told in a child’s point of view is always refreshing. For Cassie Lightfoot, the world is her oyster. She can be whomever she wants, do whatever she wants, and own just about anything she wants. As a whole, Tar Beach is a bittersweet tale of a little girl who only wants the best for her family. Combining simple language with stunning visual art, Tar Beach makes for a heartfelt and compelling read.

Three black men look down
Four paper boats are floating.
Feelings are on board.

Earl D. Shaw
birth: 1937-
place: Clarksdale, Missouri
 B.S., Physics from the University of Illinois (1960), M.A. from
Dartmouth College (1964)
 Ph.D. 1969 (Physics) from University of California, Berkeley
thesis: Nuclear Relaxation in Ferromagnetic Cobalt; advisor:
: Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
URL: http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/people/pdps/Shaw.html
email: earlshaw@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Earl D. Shaw is the father of Computer Scientist Alan C. Shaw (both are featured in a book called "Black Genius").
Earl Shaw spent his early years in rural Mississippi, living on Hopson Plantation where he attended a three-room school. His teachers did not have college degrees, but he considers his primary education to have been excellent. At the age of twelve, he and his mother moved to Chicago, Illinois. Earl Shaw attended Crane Technical High School, where he was first introduced to physics. Although the school did not provide a good general education or general guidance program, it did inspire Shaw to pursue a career in physics.
After earning his PhD., Dr. Shaw worked 19 years as a Research Scientist for Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he was the co-inventor of the spin-flip Raman tunable laser. He joined Rutgers in 1991 and moved to the Newark campus a new laser technology - the far-infrared free electron - that he developed at Bell Labs. The laser, which is to be operational in 1999, generates short tunable far-infrared light pulses that will permit the analog or pulsed magnetic resonance techniques for the first time in the optical wavelength regime.


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