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Author:

Potter, Joan.

Title:

African Americans who were first : illustrated with photographs / Joan Potter and Constance Claytor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Cobblehill Books,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

116 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Biography.

Other Authors:

Claytor, Constance.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Beverly Harvard. Phillis Wheatley ; James Derham ; Benjamin Banneker ; Alexander Twilight -- How the slaves became free. William H. Carney ; Harriet Tubman ; Mary Ann Shadd Cary ; Edmonia Lewis ; Rebecca Lee Crumpler ; Hiram Rhoades Revels ; Moses Fleetwood Walker ; Henry Ossian Flipper ; Booker T. Washington ; Bill Pickett ; Daniel Hale Williams -- African Americans after slavery ended. Bert Williams ; Matthew Henson ; Madame C.J. Walker ; W.C. Handy ; Garrett A. Morgan ; Paul Wiliams ; Carter G. Woodson ; Bessie Coleman ; Garland Anderson ; William Grant Still ; Mary McLeod Bethune ; Thomas A. Dorsey ; Henry Ossawa Tanner ; Charles Drew ; Jesse Owens ; Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. ; Hattie McDaniel ; Dorie Miller ; Satchel Paige ; Wesley A. Brown ; Alice Coachman ; Ralph Ellison ; Ralph Bunche ; Gwendolyn Brooks -- The civil rights movement. Arthur Mitchell ; Marian Anderson ; Nat King Cole ; Lorraine Hansberry ; Mal Goode ; Wilt Chamberlain ; Sidney Poitier ; Thurgood Marshall ; Arthur Ashe ; Shirley Chisholm ; Oprah Winfrey ; Moneta Sleet, Jr. ; Guion S. Bluford ; Benjamin Carson ; Muhammad Ali ; Aretha Franklin -- African Americans today. Andrew Young ; L. Douglas Wilder ; Louis Freeman ; Pamela Carter ; Mae Jemison ; Carol Moseley-Braun ; Rita Dove ; Ronald Brown ; Toni Morrison ; Beverly Harvard.

Summary:

Provides brief biographical sketches of African Americans who were the first of their race to accomplish a goal in a variety of fields, from medicine and politics to sports and entertainment.

ISBN:

9780525652465
0525652469

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36548993

LCCN:

97010164

Locations:

CKPA482 -- Amana School-Community Library (Amana)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

FOPB224 -- McGregor Public Library (McGregor)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

90PB522 -- Springmier Community Library (Tiffin)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)