Black profiles in courage
Subtitle: a legacy of African American achievement
By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Alan Steinberg ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Contributors: Steinberg, Alan, 1945-
Edition: 1st Perennial ed
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: African Americans -- Biography; African Americans -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: "First published in hardcover in 1996 by William Morrow and Company, Inc."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index
Table of contents: title: Estevanico : black presence in the Americas; title: The first Rhode Island ; Peter Salem ; Salem Poor ; James Armistead Lafayette ; Crispus Attucks; title: Joseph Cinque : black revolt; title: Frederick Douglass : freedom on the world stage; title: Harriet Tubman : freedom in the shadows; title: Bass Reeves : black individualism in the West; title: Blacks in the military; title: Lewis H. Latimer : black intellectual achievement; title: Rosa Parks : black heart