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  • Sojourner Truth: A Voice for Freedom

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2002)
    Profiles the life of Sojourner Truth, born a slave and later freed, who dedicated her life to fighting for equal rights for African Americans and women.
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  • Paul Robeson: A Voice to Remember

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, May 1, 2001)
    Examines the life of the twentieth-century African-American singer and actor who spoke out against racism and injustice.
    P

  • Women Drs & Nurses of the

    Lesli J Favor PhD

    Paperback (Rosen Classroom, Feb. 1, 2009)
    Women in the medical field provided comfort and sanity during the blood and horror on the battlefields. In this new book, students will learn about these extraordinary doctors and nurses such as Dorothea Dix, the Union armys Superintendent of Female Nurses; Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor of modern times; and Clara Barton, a nurse who later founded the American Red Cross. While lives were being lost on the front, these women helped save many.

  • Langston Hughes: Great American Poet

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, May 1, 2002)
    Describes the life and accomplishments of poet Langston Hughes.
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  • Jesse Owens: Olympic Star

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, May 1, 2001)
    Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend, and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
    N

  • Women Civil War Spies of the Confederacy

    Larissa Phillips

    Library Binding (Rosen Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2003)
    Details the lives of six women who fought to preserve the Confederacy and the Southern way of life by serving as spies during the Civil War.
    R

  • Martin Luther King, Jr: Man of Peace

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Sept. 1, 2001)
    Complete with period photos, the life, times, and accomplishments of this peaceful and powerful civil rights leader are presented to young readers.
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  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, July 1, 2001)
    A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
    R

  • Frederick Douglass

    Isabel Martin, Kathryn Nicole Clapper

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, July 1, 2014)
    Explore the life and achievements of Frederick Douglass, a former slave and human rights leader before, during, and after the Civil War.
    N

  • Louis Armstrong: Jazz Musician

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Aug. 1, 2001)
    An illustrated biography takes a look at the many accomplishments of this famous trumpet player and singer during his fifty years in show business.
    M

  • Great African Americans

    Luke Colins, Riley Flynn, Gail Saunders-Smith

    Paperback (Capstone Press, )
    None
    C

  • Zora Neale Hurston: Writer and Storyteller

    Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, May 1, 2002)
    Traces the life of the Harlem Renaissance writer and folklorist, who worked to preserve the rich storytelling tradition of African-Americans in the South.
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