| Authors: |
Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Pinkney, J. Brian.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Social change -- United States -- History.
African American men -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Social change -- United States -- History.
Banneker, Benjamin,1731-1806.
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895.
Washington, Booker T.,1856-1915.
Du Bois, W. E. B.(William Edward Burghardt),1868-1963.
Randolph, A. Philip(Asa Philip),1889-1979.
Marshall, Thurgood,1908-1993.
Robinson, Jackie,1919-1972.
X, Malcolm,1925-1965.
King, Martin Luther,Jr.,1929-1968.
Obama, Barack.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun, c2012. |
| Description: |
243 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781423142577 (hbk.) 1423142578 (hbk.) |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Coretta Scott King Award (Author), 2013. |
| Contents: |
Benjamin Banneker : Surveyor of the Sky -- Frederick Douglass : Capital Orator -- Booker T. Washington : Polished Pioneer -- W.E.B. DuBois : Erudite Educator -- A. Philip Randolph : Always Striding Ahead -- Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights -- Jackie Robinson : Game-Changer -- Malcolm X : Spark-Light -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : Nonviolent Visionary -- Barack H. Obama, Jr. : Holding on to Hope -- Timeline. |
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| Summary: |
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. |