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Hudson, Wade.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Black authors -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Quotations -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Juvenile literature.
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Hudson, Wade.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Black authors -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Quotations -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Juvenile literature.
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Powerful words : more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans / Wade Hudson ; illustrated by Sean Qualls.
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Hudson, Wade.
Scholastic, c2004.
Call #:
808
.88
H886p
Subjects
Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- Black authors -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Quotations -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Blacks -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780439409698 (2004 Scholastic Nonfiction hc.)
0439409691 (2004 Scholastic Nonfiction hc.)
Description:
xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Notes:
Scholastic Nonfiction, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman.
Donated in Friendship from the People of the United States of America.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-173) and index.
Contents:
Benjamin Banneker -- Richard Allen -- Samuel B. Cornish -- John Russwurm -- David Walker -- Dred Scott -- Sojourner Truth -- Frederick Douglass -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Henry Highland Garnet -- Blanche K. Bruce -- Ida B. Wells Barnett -- Mary Church Terrell -- Booker T. Washington -- E.E.B Dubois -- James Weldon Johnson -- J. Rosamond Johnson -- Marcus Garvey -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Thomas A. Dorsey -- Richard Wright -- Paul Robeson -- George Walhington Carver -- Thrugood Marshall -- Rosa Parks -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Malcolm X -- Stokeley Carmichael -- Alex Haley -- Barbara Jordan -- Reverend Jesse Jackson -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Toni Morrison -- Lauryn Hill.
Summary:
Selections from the writings and speeches of 36 well-known African-American men and women from from the late eighteenth century to the present, taken directly from speeches, books, essays, articles, letters, poems, and songs. Following each excerpt is a biographical sketch.
Audience:
Grades 5 Up. SLJ.
Ages 9 to 12. Scholastic.
Other authors:
Qualls, Sean.
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