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Portraits of African-American heroes

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Call Number

J 973.0496 BOLD (OSH)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2003.

Physical Description

88 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Contents

Frederick Douglass
Matthew Henson
W.E.B. Du Bois
Mary McLeod Bethune
Bessie Coleman
Paul Robeson
Satchel Paige
Thurgood Marshall
Pauli Murray
Joe Louis
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jacob Lawrence
Dizzy Gillespie
Shirley Chisholm
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Judith Jamison
Ruth Simmons
Ben Carson.

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