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Famous African-American women / illustrations by Cal Massey ; text by Janet Baine Kopito.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection GV1219 K67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kopito, Janet Baine.
- Series:
- Dover pictorial archive series
- Dover coloring book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coloring books.
- African American women--Miscellanea.
- African American women.
- African American women--Biography--Miscellanea.
- Women--United States--Biography--Miscellanea.
- Women.
- Blacks--Women--Miscellanea.
- Blacks--Women--Biography--Miscellanea.
- African American women--Biography.
- Women--Biography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [©2002].
- Summary:
- Includes sketches and short biographies of: Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Frances E.W. Harper, Ellen Craft, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Susie Baker King Taylor, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, Madam C.J. Walker, Maggie Lena Walker, Mary Leod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Coleman, Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, Marian Anderson, Clara "Mother" Hale, Katherine Dunham, Mahalia Jackson, Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ella Fitzgerald, Constance Baker Motley, Shirley Chisholm, Althea Gibson, Coretta Scott King, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Barbara Jordon, Marian Wright Edelman, Wilma Rudolph, Nikki Giovanni, Oprah Winfrey, Mae Jemison, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Whitney Houston.
- Notes:
- "Original Dover (2002) publication. 45 black-and-white illustrations. 5 color illustrations on covers. Captions."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0486420523 :
- 9780486420523
- OCLC:
- 54485323
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