Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times
By: by Susan Altman ; consultants, Tony Martin, Lynn Hemphill
Publisher: Childrens Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780516005812
Subjects: African Americans; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: Presents short biographies of ninety-five black Americans from colonial to contemporary times, highlighting their personal achievements and their resulting contributions to the growth of American society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 236).
Table of contents: title: Estevanico; title: Lucy Terry Prince; title: Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable; title: Crispus Attucks; title: Benjamin Banneker; title: Phillis Wheatley; title: Peter Salem; title: James Forten; title: James Armistead; title: Elizabeth Freeman; title: Richard Allen; title: Paul Cuffe; title: Gabriel Prosser; title: York; title: Denmark Vesey; title: Slave uprisings; title: Garcia; title: Black Seminoles; title: Nat Turner; title: Joseph Cinque; title: James Beckwourth; title: Madison Washington; title: Norbert Rillieux; title: Underground Railroad; title: Lewis Temple; title: Dred Scott; title: Lewis Hayden; title: Harriet Tubman; title: Jermain Wesley Loguen; title: John Anthony Copeland, Jr.; title: Frederick Douglass; title: Sojourner Truth; title: George Washington; title: Robert Smalls; title: Charlotte Forten Grimke; title: The Emancipation Proclamation; title: Black Civil War soldiers; title: Reconstruction; title: P. B. S. Pinchback; title: Booker T. Washington; title: Nat Love; title: Jan Ernst Matzeliger; title: George Jordan; title: Lewis Howard Latimer; title: Scott Joplin; title: George Washington Williams; title: George Washington Carver; title: Granville T. Woods; title: Daniel Hale Williams; title: Madame C. J. Walker; title: Charles Young; title: Elijah McCoy.