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Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America

Call Number

  • J 973.0496 PINK (CEN, OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun, c2012.

Physical Description

243 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Summary

Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.

Contents

  • Benjamin Banneker : Surveyor of the Sky
  • Frederick Douglass : Capital Orator
  • Booker T. Washington : Polished Pioneer
  • W.E.B. DuBois : Erudite Educator
  • A. Philip Randolph : Always Striding Ahead
  • Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights
  • Jackie Robinson : Game-Changer
  • Malcolm X : Spark-Light
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. : Nonviolent Visionary
  • Barack H. Obama, Jr. : Holding on to Hope
  • Timeline.

Added Authors

J Brian Pinkney

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