Black Profiles in Courage 
Subtitle: A Legacy of African American Achievement
Contributors: Jr. Henry Louis Gates (Foreword)
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780380730605
First sentence: When I played my last professional basketball game on June 13, 1989, I began my passage from one kind of life to another.