Black trailblazers : 30 courageous visionaries who broke boundaries, made a difference, and paved the way / Bijan Bayne ; illustrated by Joelle Avelino.
Phillis Wheatley -- Sojourner Truth -- Madam C. J. Walker -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Bessie Coleman -- Louis Armstrong -- Ella Baker -- Charles Drew -- Thurgood Marshall -- Mahalia Jackson -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Katherine Johnson -- James Baldwin -- Shirley Chisholm -- Sidney Poitier -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Toni Morrison -- Dick Gregory -- Nina Simone -- Quincy Jones -- Diane Nash -- Claudette Colvin -- Muhammad Ali -- Aretha Franklin -- Stevie Wonder -- Oprah Winfrey -- Florence Griffith Joyner -- Barack Obama -- Kamala Harris -- Misty Copeland.
Summary:
They did it first! This book celebrates 30 Black visionaries who changed the world. Explore inspiring stories of women like Bessie Coleman, whose curiosity and guts drove her to become the first Black American female pilot, and Katherine Johnson, whose love of numbers sent astronauts safely to the moon. Discover what happened when pioneers in science like W. E. B. Du Bois and Charles Drew challenged racist thinking, when civil rights activists like Sojourner Truth and Martin Luther King, Jr., fought for justice, and when innovators like Madam C. J. Walker, Quincy Jones, and Misty Copeland broke the mold. These courageous Black ground-breakers stood up for their rights, for their ideas, and for the future.
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