13 against the odds
By: by Edwin R. Embree
Series: Black biographical dictionaries, 1790-1950 -- no. 89
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: African Americans -- Biography
Other titles: Thirteen against the odds
Notes: Microfiche. Alexandria, Va. : Chadwyck-Healey, 1987. 4 microfiches. (Black biographical dictionaries, 1790-1950 ; no. 89)
Table of contents: title: Mary McLeod Bethune, Amazon of God; title: Richard Wright, native son; title: Charles S. Johnson, a scholar and a gentleman; title: Walter White, little David; title: George Washington Carver, sweet potato wizard; title: Langston Hughes, Shakespeare in Harlem; title: Marian Anderson, deep river of song; title: W.E.B. Du Bois, elder statesman; title: Mordecai W. Johnson, lord high chancellor; title: William Grant Still, music maker; title: A. Philip Randolph, Saint Philip of the Pullman porters; title: Joe Louis, champion of the world; title: Paul Robeson, voice of freedom