Portraits of African-American heroes
By: Tonya Bolden ; paintings by Ansel Pitcairn
Contributors: Pitcairn, Ansel, illustrator
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780142404737
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: African Americans; Heroes; Juvenile literature; Biography
Description: A collection of twenty biographical stories about famous African American heroes from Frederick Douglass to Gwendolyn Brooks to Joe Lewis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-88).

Ages 7 up.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 8.3 3.

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2004
Table of contents: title: Frederick Douglass --; title: Matthew Henson --; title: W.E.B. Du Bois --; title: Mary McLeod Bethune --; title: Bessie Coleman --; title: Paul Robeson --; title: Satchel Paige --; title: Thurgood Marshall --; title: Pauli Murray --; title: Joe Louis --; title: Gwendolyn Brooks --; title: Jacob Lawrence --; title: Dizzy Gillespie --; title: Shirley Chisholm --; title: Malcolm X --; title: Martin Luther King, Jr. --; title: Charlayne Hunter-Gault --; title: Judith Jamison --; title: Ruth Simmons --; title: Ben Carson.