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Afro-Bets Book of Black heroes from A to Z : an introduction to important Black achievers for young readers / written by Wade Hudson, Valerie Wilson Wesley.
LIBRA E185.96 .H77 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hudson, Wade, author.
- Wesley, Valerie Wilson, author.
- Series:
- Afro-bets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- Heroes--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Heroes.
- African Americans--Biography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Literature
- Biographies
- Juvenile works
- Biographies.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 54 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Other Title:
- Book of Black heroes from A to Z.
- Place of Publication:
- Orange, N.J. : Just Us Books, 1988.
- Summary:
- An introduction to African American men and women such as Frederick Douglass, Bessie Smith, Thurgood Marshall, Jesse Owens, and Zora Neale Hurston, who overcome great obstacles to make significant contributions.
- Contents:
- Ira Aldridge
- Muhammad Ali
- Marion Anderson
- Benjamin Banneker
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Joseph Cinque
- Fanny M. Coppin
- Frederick Douglass
- William E.B. DuBois
- Jean DuSable
- Katherine Dunham
- Duke Ellington
- Aretha Franklin
- Marcus Garvey
- Althea Gibson
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Matthew Henson
- Langston Hughes
- Zora N. Hurston
- Rex Ingram
- Jesse Jackson
- James W. Johnson
- Ulysses Kay
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Edmonia Lewis
- Alaine Locke
- Thurgood Marshall
- Willie Mays
- Constance B. Motley
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Jesse Owens
- Rosa Parks
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Benjamin Quarles
- Paul Robeson
- Wilma Rudolph
- Bessie Smith
- William G. Still
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Leslie Uggams
- Denmark Vesey
- Booker T. Washington
- Ethel Waters
- Ida B. Wells
- Phillis Wheatley
- Malcolm X
- Whitney Young
- Shaka Zulu.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 52).
- "For young readers"--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 0940975025
- 9780940975026
- 0940975467
- 9780940975460
- OCLC:
- 18712398
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