Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement
With all the flair of his last-second game-winning sky hooks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers a well-written and important collection highlighting the lives of America's greatest black heroes.  Taking his title cue from John Kennedy'sProfiles in Courage, Abdul-Jabbar brings to life the exploits of a wide variety of African Americans, including Estevanico, a Moorish slave who discovered Arizona and New Mexico; Cinque, a kidnapped African slave who led a mutiny aboard the slave shipAmistadand later won his freedom in the U.S.; and Harriet Tubman, who brought hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.In a time when the media beams negative images of African Americans around the world,Black Profiles in Courageis indispensable for young adults of other races as well as African-American youth, showing that attributes like courage are not coded by color.  For those young blacks who feel distant from America because of racism, books like this are a small but potent antidote against prejudice, reminding them of the important contributions African Americans have made to their country.--Eugene Holley, Jr.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.