Lake County Library System Logo
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times / by Susan Altman ; consultants, Tony Martin, Lynn Hemphill.

By: Publication details: Chicago : Childrens Press, c1989.Description: 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780516005812
  • 0516005812
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973/.0496073022 B 920 19
LOC classification:
  • E185.96 .A56 1989
Contents:
-- Ralph Bunche -- Wilma Rudolph -- Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. -- Lorraine Hansberry -- James Baldwin -- Rosa Parks -- Thurgood Marshall -- The Little Rock Nine -- Medgar Evers -- Sit-ins -- Freedom riders -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Malcolm X -- The 1963 march on Washington -- Roy Wilkins -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The Black power movement -- Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr. -- Toni Morrison -- Jesse Jackson -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Reconstruction Amendments -- Elizabeth Eckford's statement -- Letter from Birmingham City Jail -- "I have a dream" speech.Estevanico. -- Lucy Terry Prince. -- Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable. -- Crispus Attucks -- Benjamin Banneker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Peter Salem -- James Forten -- James Armistead -- Elizabeth Freeman -- Richard Allen -- Paul Cuffe -- Gabriel Prosser -- York -- Denmark Vesey -- Garcia -- Black Seminoles --Nat Turner -- Joseph Cinque -- James Beckwourth -- Madison Washington -- Norbert Rillieux -- Underground railroad -- Lewis Temple -- Dred Scott -- Lewis Hayden -- Harriet Tubman -- Jermain Wesley Loguen -- John Anthony Copeland, Jr. -- Frederick Douglass -- Sojourner Truth -- George Washington -- Robert Smalls -- Charlotte Forten Grimke -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Black Civil War soldiers -- Reconstruction -- P.B.S. Pinchback -- Booker T. Washington -- Nat Love -- Jan Ernst Matzeliger -- George Jordan -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- Scott Joplin -- George Washington Williams -- George Washington Carver -- Granville T. Woods -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Made C.J. Walker -- Charles Young -- Elijah McCoy -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Mary Church Terrell -- Matthew Henson -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- W.E.B. DuBois -- Robert Stengstacke Abbott -- Garrett A. Morgan -- William Christopher Handy -- Henry Johnson -- Bessie Smith -- Marcus Garvey -- Louis Armstrong -- Langston Hughes -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington -- Jesse Owens -- Richard Wright -- Paul Robeson -- Joe Louis -- Marian Anderson -- Asa Philip Randolph -- Charles Richard Drew -- Jackie Robinson -- Percy Lavon Julian
Summary: Presents short biographies of ninety-five black Americans from colonial to contemporary times, highlighting their personal achievements and their resulting contributions to the growth of American society.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Marion Baysinger Memorial Library Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Nonfiction J 973 Altman 1 Available 34209000017647
Books Books Umatilla Public Library Nonfiction Nonfiction 920 Altman S. 1 Available 31876000209672
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236).

-- Ralph Bunche -- Wilma Rudolph -- Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. -- Lorraine Hansberry -- James Baldwin -- Rosa Parks -- Thurgood Marshall -- The Little Rock Nine -- Medgar Evers -- Sit-ins -- Freedom riders -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Malcolm X -- The 1963 march on Washington -- Roy Wilkins -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The Black power movement -- Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr. -- Toni Morrison -- Jesse Jackson -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Reconstruction Amendments -- Elizabeth Eckford's statement -- Letter from Birmingham City Jail -- "I have a dream" speech.Estevanico. -- Lucy Terry Prince. -- Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable. -- Crispus Attucks -- Benjamin Banneker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Peter Salem -- James Forten -- James Armistead -- Elizabeth Freeman -- Richard Allen -- Paul Cuffe -- Gabriel Prosser -- York -- Denmark Vesey -- Garcia -- Black Seminoles --Nat Turner -- Joseph Cinque -- James Beckwourth -- Madison Washington -- Norbert Rillieux -- Underground railroad -- Lewis Temple -- Dred Scott -- Lewis Hayden -- Harriet Tubman -- Jermain Wesley Loguen -- John Anthony Copeland, Jr. -- Frederick Douglass -- Sojourner Truth -- George Washington -- Robert Smalls -- Charlotte Forten Grimke -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Black Civil War soldiers -- Reconstruction -- P.B.S. Pinchback -- Booker T. Washington -- Nat Love -- Jan Ernst Matzeliger -- George Jordan -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- Scott Joplin -- George Washington Williams -- George Washington Carver -- Granville T. Woods -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Made C.J. Walker -- Charles Young -- Elijah McCoy -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Mary Church Terrell -- Matthew Henson -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- W.E.B. DuBois -- Robert Stengstacke Abbott -- Garrett A. Morgan -- William Christopher Handy -- Henry Johnson -- Bessie Smith -- Marcus Garvey -- Louis Armstrong -- Langston Hughes -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington -- Jesse Owens -- Richard Wright -- Paul Robeson -- Joe Louis -- Marian Anderson -- Asa Philip Randolph -- Charles Richard Drew -- Jackie Robinson -- Percy Lavon Julian

Presents short biographies of ninety-five black Americans from colonial to contemporary times, highlighting their personal achievements and their resulting contributions to the growth of American society.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.