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Author:

Wilson, Jamia, 1980- author.

Title:

Young, gifted and Black too / text, Jamia Wilson ; illustrations Andrea Pippins.

Publisher:

Wide Eyed Editions,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

63 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Black people--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans.
Black people.
African Americans.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Illustrated works.

Other Authors:

Pippins, Andrea, illustrator.

Notes:

"Meet 52 more Black icons from past and present" -- Cover.

Contents:

Mari Copeny. Queen Nanny -- Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Chevalier de Saint-Georges -- Olaudah Equiano -- Alexander Pushkin -- Yaa Asantewaa -- Moses and Calvin McKissack -- Ann Lowe -- Albert Luthuli -- Charles Drew -- Thurgood Marshall -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe -- George Washington Gibbs Jr. -- Jackie Robinson -- Bertina Lopes -- Frantz Fanon -- Hans Massaquoi -- Coretta Scott King -- Mariama Bâ -- Gladys Mae West -- Chinua Achebe -- Miriam Makeba -- Annie Easley -- Ngũgĩ wa Thiang'o -- Fela Kuti -- John Lewis -- Aretha Franklin -- Angela Davis -- Bob Marley -- Octavia Butler -- Thomas Sankara -- Iman -- Prince -- Ozwald Boateng -- Marcus Samuelsson -- Leymah Gbowee -- Laverne Cox -- Phoebe Robinson -- Lewis Hamilton -- Michaela Coel -- Colin Kaepernick -- Kadeena Cox -- Aisha Dee -- Adenike Oladosu -- Naomi Osaka -- Amanda Gorman -- Chloe x Halle -- Ntando Mahlangu -- Zaila Avant-garde -- Mari Copeny.

Summary:

Young, Gifted and Black Too celebrates the lives of 52 more leaders, heroes, sportspeople, and artists of color from around the world.

ISBN:

0711277028
9780711277021
0711277001
9780711277007

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)