African Americans who were first
Subtitle: illustrated with photographs
By: Joan Potter and Constance Claytor
Contributors: Claytor, Constance
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cobblehill Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780525652465
Subjects: African Americans; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: Provides brief biographical sketches of African Americans who were the first of their race to accomplish a goal in a variety of fields, from medicine and politics to sports and entertainment.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Phillis Wheatley; title: James Derham; title: Benjamin Banneker; title: Alexander Twilight; title: William H. Carney; title: Harriet Tubman; title: Mary Ann Shadd Cary; title: Edmonia Lewis; title: Rebecca Lee Crumpler; title: Hiram Rhoades Revels; title: Moses Fleetwood Walker; title: Henry Ossian Flipper; title: Booker T. Washington; title: Bill Pickett; title: Daniel Hale Williams; title: Bert Williams; title: Matthew Henson; title: Madame C.J. Walker; title: W.C. Handy; title: Garrett A. Morgan; title: Paul Wiliams; title: Carter G. Woodson; title: Bessie Coleman; title: Garland Anderson; title: William Grant Still; title: Mary McLeod Bethune; title: Thomas A. Dorsey; title: Henry Ossawa Tanner; title: Charles Drew; title: Jesse Owens; title: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.; title: Hattie McDaniel; title: Dorie Miller; title: Satchel Paige; title: Wesley A. Brown; title: Alice Coachman; title: Ralph Ellison; title: Ralph Bunche; title: Gwendolyn Brooks; title: Arthur Mitchell; title: Marian Anderson; title: Nat King Cole; title: Lorraine Hansberry; title: Mal Goode; title: Wilt Chamberlain; title: Sidney Poitier; title: Thurgood Marshall; title: Arthur Ashe; title: Shirley Chisholm; title: Oprah Winfrey; title: Moneta Sleet, Jr.; title: Guion S. Bluford; title: Benjamin Carson; title: Muhammad Ali; title: Aretha Franklin; title: Andrew Young; title: L. Douglas Wilder; title: Louis Freeman; title: Pamela Carter; title: Mae Jemison; title: Carol Moseley-Braun; title: Rita Dove; title: Ronald Brown; title: Toni Morrison; title: Beverly Harvard.