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Fifty Black women who changed America / Amy Alexander.
LIBRA - Rare E185.96 A48 2003 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Amy, 1963-
- Series:
- Dafina books.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 306 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First Kensington Trade Paperback Printing.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2003.
- Contents:
- Phillis Wheatley
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Ida B. Wells Barnett
- Mary Church Terrell
- Madame C. J. Walker
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Alberta Hunter
- Bessie Smith
- Hattie McDaniel
- Marian Anderson
- Ella Baker
- Joseph Baker
- Dorothy West
- Katherine Dunham
- Mahalia Jackson
- Dorothy Height
- Rosa Parks
- Billie Holiday
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Lena Horne
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ruby Dee
- Shirley Chisholm
- Eartha Kitt
- Leontyne Price
- Maya Angelou
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Odetta
- Toni Morrison
- Audre Lorde
- Sonia Sanchez
- Barbara Jordan
- June Jordan
- Betty Shabazz
- Johnnetta Cole
- Mary Frances Berry
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Tina Turner
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- Aretha Franklin
- Nikki Giovanni
- Angela Davis
- Alice Walker
- Susan Taylor
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Oprah Winfrey
- Florence Griffith Joyner.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Secaucus, NJ : Carol Pub. Group, 1999.
- "First Kensington Trade Paperback Printing: January 2003."
- "Fully Illustrated with Portraits"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0758201850
- 9780758201850
- OCLC:
- 987950381
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