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My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey Kids Books and the social history throughby Jeanne Walker Harvey (Author) Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train that took his people to the North people who wanted to be free. When Romare boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using