Title: Black Stars of the Civil Rights Movement
Description: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE    Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the lives of brave black men and women during the Civil Rights Movement:   LOUIS "SATCHMO" ARMSTRONG   MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE   MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR.   W. E. B. DU BOIS   LIEUTENANT HENRY O. FLIPPER   MARCUS GARVEY   MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.   THURGOOD MARSHALL   ROSA PARKS   ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR.   PHILIP RANDOLPH   PAUL ROBESON   JACKIE ROBINSON   BOOKER T. WASHINGTON   IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT   CARTER G. WOODSON   WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR.      "The books in the Black Stars series are the types of books that would have really captivated me as a kid."  -Earl G. Graves, Black Enterprise magazine    "Inspiring stories that demonstrate what can happen when ingenuity and tenacity are paired with courage and hard work."  -Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books    "Haskins has chosen his subjects well . . . catching a sense of the enormous obstacles they had to overcome. . . . Some names are familiar, but most are little-known whom Haskins elevates to their rightful place in history."  -Booklist    "The broad coverage makes this an unusual resource-a jumping-off point for deeper studies."  -Horn Book
Subjects: History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Nonfiction, African American civil rights workers, African Americans, Juvenile literature, Biography, Civil rights workers, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, African americans, civil rights