Age
4-8
Grade
2-3
Wade Hudson, Ron Garnett
Great Black Heroes: Five Bold Freedom Fighters
Paperback
(Cartwheel Jan. 1, 2003)
An easy-to-read collection of brief biographies of five Black freedom fighters: Richard Allen, Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer.This easy-to-read biography describes the early lives of Richard Allen, one of the founders of the Free African Society, the first formally organized African American group in the United States; Harriet Tubman, a major conductor of the Underground Railroad; Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP and a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement; Medgar Evers, the first field secretary for the NAACP; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a leading civil rights activist who gained national attention when she tried to vote in rural Mississippi.
- Series
- Hello Reader
- ISBN
- 059048026X / 9780590480260
- Pages
- 48
- Weight
- 3.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.2
in.