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Wade Hudson

Latest Title: The Day Madear Voted
Genre: childrens
Author: Wade Hudson
The Day Madear Voted

A moving look at a Black family’s journey to exercise their right to vote and imagine a better future.

Charlie and Ralph’s mom has waited a long time to vote because countless obstacles have been put in Black people’s way to stop them from having a say in elections—obstacles that it took a lot of hard work to tear down. But now, in 1969, Madear is going to vote for the very first time, and the boys are coming along on this exciting day. A day that puts a new bounce in their mom’s step, and enables them all to begin to dream of a better future.

Wade Hudson and Don Tate give young readers a warm family story as well as a powerful glimpse into the struggle that had to be waged to achieve a fundamental right of citizenship.

About Wade Hudson

Wade Hudson is the author of more than 35 books for young readers, including the middle grade memoir, “Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South,” winner of the 2022 Malka Penn award, and the anthologies, “We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices;” “The Talk,” a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and “Recognize: Black Lives Matter” (all co-edited with his wife, Cheryl Willis Hudson). He is the president and co-founder of Just Us Books, Inc. Wade speaks around the country about issues of inclusion and diversity and has received numerous honors for his contributions to children’s literature, including the Children’s Book Council’s Diversity Achievement Award and a 2022 Eric Carle Honor. He lives in East Orange, N.J. He will be presenting “The Day Madear Voted.”

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