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Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times / by Susan Altman ; consultants, Tony Martin, Lynell Hemphill. by Altman, Susan. Childrens Press, c1989. Call #: 920 A4681e Subjects Slavery -- United States.   Blacks -- United States -- History.   Blacks -- Biography. ISBN:  0516005812 0516405810 Description:  240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 236) and index. Contents:  Estevanica -- 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 -- Slave Uprisings -- 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 -- Madame C.J. Walker -- Charles Young -- Elijah McCoy -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Mary Church Terrell -- Matthew Henson -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- W.E.B. DuBois -- Robert Sengstacke Abbott -- Garrett A. Morgan -- William Christopher Handy -- Henry Johnson -- Bessie Smith -- Marcus Garvery -- 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 -- 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 -- 1963 March on Washington -- Roy Wilkins -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- 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 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Non-Circulating Children's Reference 920 A4681e Non-circulating Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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