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Kindergarten Student Collects Books for BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Sycamore’s Diane Borgmann presents Amor Coleman with a letter of commendation from the CEO of the Indianapolis Public Library and the President of the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.
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mor Coleman had the idea to collect books that depict Black and Brown kids like her to pass out to her classmates and other children in the area in celebration of Black History Month. It became successful beyond her and her family’s expectations. Coleman is a Sycamore Kindergarten student and started a book drive to coincide with her upcoming February birthday. Amor and her mom, Erica Scott, spread the word through school, social media, and through media and TV
interviews. They ended up collecting enough children’s books to give a book to each student in Kindergarten class at Sycamore before they even started to spread them throughout the Indianapolis community. “In conversations with classmates the issue of skin tone came up many times,” Scott says. “I wanted Amor to feel represented and confident in who she was even in settings where she was the only one who ‘looked like her’. So I thought a diverse children’s book drive was a great way
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