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Author:

Bolden, Tonya.

Title:

Portraits of African-American heroes / Tonya Bolden ; paintings by Ansel Pitcairn.

Publisher:

Puffin Books,

Copyright Date:

2005, c2003

Description:

88 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Heroes.--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Pitcairn, Ansel, ill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-88).

Contents:

Ben Carson. Matthew Henson -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Bessie Coleman -- Paul Robeson -- Satchel Paige -- Thurgood Marshall -- Pauli Murray -- Joe Louis -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Jacob Lawrence -- Dizzy Gillespie -- Shirley Chisholm -- Malcolm X -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Judith Jamison -- Ruth Simmons -- Ben Carson.

Summary:

A collection of twenty biographical stories about famous African American heroes from Frederick Douglass to Gwendolyn Brooks to Joe Lewis.

ISBN:

9780142404737 (pbk.)
014240473X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64663860

Locations:

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

LZSX115 -- Storm Lake Middle School (Storm Lake)