SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026)(@NewBlackMan):Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103 Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.

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Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103 Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.