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Extraordinary African-Americans
Edition
Rev. ed.
Publication Information
New York : Children's Press, c2001.
Physical Description
288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Summary
Presents short biographies of extraordinary African Americans throughout history from colonial times to the present.
Notes
Rev. ed. of: Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times. 1989.
Subtitle from cover: From colonial to contemporary times.
Contents
- Lucy Terry Prince
- Phillis Wheatley
- Richard Allen
- Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
- Peter Salem
- Gabriel Prosser
- Grispus Attucks
- James Armistead
- York
- Benjamin Banneker
- Elizabeth Freeman
- Denmark Vesey
- Black Seminoles
- Underground railroad
- Jermain Wesley Loguen
- Nat Turner
- Lewis Temple
- Frederick Douglass
- Joseph Cinque (Sengbe Pieh)
- Dred Scott
- Sojourner Truth
- James Pierson Beckwourth
- Lewis Hayden
- Robert Smalls
- Norbert Rillieux
- Harriet Ross Tubman
- Emancipation proclamation
- African-American Civil War soldiers
- Jan Ernst Matzeliger
- George Washington Carver
- Reconstruction
- Isaac Myers
- Granville T. Woods
- P.B.S. Pinchback
- George Jordan
- Daniel Hale Williams
- Booker T. Washington
- Scott Joplin
- Madam C.J. Walker
- Nat Love
- George Washington Williams
- Charles Young
- Elijah McCoy
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Henry Johnson --
- (Cont'd) Henry Ossawa Tanner
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Bessie Smith
- Ida.B. Wells-Barnett
- Robert Sengstacke Abbott
- Great Northern Migration
- Mary Church Terrell
- Garrett Augustus Morgan
- James Weldon Johnson
- Matthew Alexander Henson
- William Christopher Handy
- Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman
- Marcus Garvey
- Alain Leroy Locke
- Billie Holiday
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Harlem Renaissance
- Carter G. Woodson
- Richard Wright
- Louis Armstrong
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Kennedy
- Julian Francis Abele
- Paul Revere Williams
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Charles Hamilton Houston
- Paul Robeson
- Langston Hughes
- Jesse Owens
- Joe Louis
- Marian Anderson
- Gordon Parks
- James Baldwin
- Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
- Percy Lavon Julian
- Wilma Rudolph
- Asa Philip Randolph
- Ralph Bunche
- Rosa Parks
- Charles Richard Drew
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Alex Palmer Haley
- Jackie Robinson
- Lorraine Hansberry --
- (Cont'd) Ella Josephine Baker
- Thurgood Marshall
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Little Rock Nine
- Malcolm X
- Black Power Movement
- Medger Evers
- 1963 March on Washington
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Sit-ins
- Roy Wilkins
- Maya Angelou
- Freedom Riders
- Alvin Alley
- Arthur Mitchell
- Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr.
- Mae C. Jemison
- Muhammad Ali
- Colin Luther Powell
- Michael Jeffrey Jordan
- Toni Morrison
- Alice Walker
- Benjamin S. Carson
- Jesse Jackson
- Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.
- Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee
- John Robert Lewis
- Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron
- Tiger Woods
- Bill Cosby
- Oprah Winfrey.