@article{277714,
      recid = {277714},
      author = {Coleman, Evelyn, and Robinson, Aminah Brenda Lynn.},
      title = {To be a drum /},
      publisher = {A. Whitman,},
      address = {Morton Grove, Ill. :},
      pages = {1 v. (unpaged) :},
      year = {1998},
      note = {"The illustrations were created using homemade dyes and  paper and incorporating pieces of cloth and various other  materials, including wool and sisal threads from Kenya,  clay, sand, wood strips, raw cotton, vintage buttons, and  basket fragments.  Some of the cloth scraps were taken from  a quilt made by the artist's great-aunt when she was a  slave in Georgia.  Other scraps were collected from  clothing dating from the early twentieth century to the  present." -- t.p. verso},
      abstract = {Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as  slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can  hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/277714},
}