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Book

The fierce 44 : black Americans who shook up the world

Call Number

  • J 920 FIER (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]

Physical Description

94 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm

Audience

Ages 10-12.

Summary

"A dynamic and hip collective biography that presents 44 of America's greatest movers and shakers from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Barack Obama, written by ESPN's TheUndefeated.com and illustrated with dazzling portraits by Rob Ball."

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