Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times / by Susan Altman ; consultants, Tony Martin, Lynn Hemphill.
Publication details: Chicago : Childrens Press, c1989.Description: 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780516005812
- 0516005812
- 973/.0496073022 B 920 19
- E185.96 .A56 1989
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Books | Umatilla Public Library | Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 920 Altman S. | 1 | Available | 31876000209672 |
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.
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