Hand in Hand
Ten Black Men Who Changed America
New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun Books, [2012]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 243 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
Contents:
Benjamin Banneker : surveyor of the sky -- Frederick Douglass : capital orator -- Booker T. Washington : polished pioneer -- W.E.B. DuBois : erudite educator -- A. Philip Randolph : always striding ahead -- Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights -- Jackie Robinson : game-changer -- Malcolm X : spark-light -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : nonviolent visionary -- Barack H. Obama, Jr. : holding on to hope.
Subjects:
African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Social change -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Social change -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 970L
ISBN:
9781423142577
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C BIOGRAPHY Collective AF AM Hand | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective AF AM Hand | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective AF AM Hand | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Pin | Eastover | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective AF AM Hand | North Main | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective AF AM Hand | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Pin | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-238), filmography (page 238), and index.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2013.
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner, 2013.