13 against the odds
By: by Edwin R. Embree.
Publisher: The Viking Press
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: African Americans -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Thirteen against the odds.
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.