Open the unusual door
Subtitle: true life stories of challenge, adventure, and success by black Americans
By: edited and with an introductions by Barbara Summers
Publisher: Graphia
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780618585311; 9781417675920
Subjects: Self-confidence; Anecdotes; Juvenile literature; Successful people; Adventure and adventurers; African Americans; Biography
Description: Contains stories about sixteen African Americans who became successful in a wide range of activities.
Table of contents: title: Derek Jeter; title: Queen Latifah; title: Susan Fales-Hill; title: Chamique Holdsclaw; title: Colin Powell; title: Dexter Scott King; title: Antwone Fisher; title: Lynne Duke; title: Whoopi Goldberg; title: E. Lynn Harris; title: Sister Souljah; title: Michael Cottman; title: Peter Westbrook; title: Russell Simmons; title: bell hooks; title: Neil de Grasse Tyson.