{"id":3209,"date":"2026-03-11T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:12:09","slug":"birthdays-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ralph Abernathy<\/strong> (born Linden, Alabama, 1926; died Atlanta, Georgia, April 17, 1990) was a civil rights leader. He helped organize the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, and he worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. He assumed some of King\u2019s responsibilities after King was assassinated. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/people\/ralph-david-abernathy.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph Abernathy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Libba Bray<\/strong> (born Montgomery, Alabama, 1964) writes books for young adults. Her books include <em>Going Bovine<\/em>, which received the 2010 Michael L. Printz Award, and <em>Beauty Queens<\/em>. Young adults can visit her site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/libbabray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Libba Bray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanda G\u00e1g<\/strong> (born New Ulm, Minnesota, 1893; died New York, New York, June 27, 1946) wrote and illustrated books for children. Her book <em>Millions of Cats<\/em> received a1929 Newbery Honor Award. <em>The ABC Bunny<\/em> earned G\u00e1g a1934 Newbery Honor Award. <em>Nothing at All<\/em> received a 1942 Caldecott Honor Award. Notice that she earned both a Caldecott and Newbery Awards. Children could read Deborah Kogan Ray\u2019s book, <em>Wanda G\u00e1g: The Girl Who Loved to Draw. <\/em>They can also learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/gag-wanda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wanda Gag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ezra Jack Keats<\/strong> (born Brooklyn, New York, 1916; died New York, New York, May 6, 1983) was a children\u2019s author and illustrator. He wrote, among other works, <em>The Snowy Day<\/em> which received the 1963 Caldecott Medal. In addition, <em>Goggles<\/em> received a 1970 Caldecott Honor Award. In 1985 the Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards were created. Every year the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation honors the best new authors and illustrators. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezra-jack-keats.org\/section\/ezra-jack-keats-book-awards\/\">Ezra Jack Keats<\/a>. Children could also learn more about Ezra Jack Keats\u00a0and the\u00a0Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards\u00a0from <em>Children\u2019s Book Award Handbook<\/em>, by Diana F. Marks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Treat Paine<\/strong> (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1731; died Boston, Massachusetts, May 11, 1814) signed the Declaration of Independence. He was also elected to the Constitutional Convention. From 1777 to 1790 he was our country\u2019s first attorney general. He also served on the Massachusetts State Supreme Court from 1790 to 1804. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/parkhistory\/online_books\/declaration\/bio37.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Treat Paine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Abernathy (born Linden, Alabama, 1926; died Atlanta, Georgia, April 17, 1990) was a civil rights leader. He helped organize the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, and he worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. He assumed some of King\u2019s responsibilities after King was assassinated. Children could learn more at: Ralph Abernathy. Libba Bray (born Montgomery, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3209' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3363,3367,3365,6174,3364,3362,3366],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-ezra-jack-keats","tag-libba-bray","tag-march-11-birthdays","tag-ralph-abernathy","tag-robert-treat-paine","tag-wanda-gag","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27153,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/27153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}