num_pages: 48
description: An easy-to-read collection of brief biographies of five Black freedom Richard Allen, Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer.This easy-to-read biography describes the early lives of Richard Allen, one of the founders of the Free African Society, the first formally organized African American group in the United States; Harriet Tubman, a major conductor of the Underground Railroad; Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP and a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement; Medgar Evers, the first field secretary for the NAACP; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a leading civil rights activist who gained national attention when she tried to vote in rural Mississippi.
language: English
title: Great Black Heroes: Five Bold Freedom Fighters
titlecomplete: Great Black Heroes: Five Bold Freedom Fighters
genres: Biography, Nonfiction, History, Childrens, African American
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Cartwheel