Dorothy Sterling dies
Dorothy Sterling, a prolific author who helped educate America's children about prominent blacks and the civil rights movement, has died at age 95, according to the New York Times. Sterling, a long-time member of the Baltimore-based NAACP, wrote more than 30 books, including Freedom Train, about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad,
After working as a researcher at Life magazine, she left to write books, the Times said. Determined to write the biography of a strong woman who could inspire girls, she found her way to Tubman and discovered a new field of research. “I was excited, but also bewildered and angry,” she wrote. “Why had I never heard of Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass or William Lloyd Garrison? Here was a wealth of information, dozens of inspiring stories to tell to young readers.”
Her other books for children and young adults included It Started in Montgomery and Tear Down the Walls!: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement.
