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Books in Great African Americans Series series

  • Jesse Owens: Olympic Star

    Patricia C. McKissack, Fredrick L. McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Publishers, Dec. 1, 1992)
    Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend, and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority.
    R
  • John F. Kennedy

    Kathie Billingslea Smith, James Seward

    Library Binding (Julian Messner, Oct. 1, 1987)
    A biography of the dynamic leader who served as the thirty-fifth president of the United States until his assassination in 1963.
    Q
  • George Washington

    Kathie Billingslea Smith, James Seward

    Library Binding (Julian Messner, April 1, 1987)
    A biography of our first President with illustrations that are reproductions of paintings, documents, and photographs from the National Archives and the Library of Congress.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Riley Flynn, Gail Saunders-Smith

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2014)
    Explore the life and achievements of world famous teacher and African American leader, Booker T. Washington.
    N
  • Paul Robeson: A Voice to Remember

    Patricia C. McKissack, Fredrick L. McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Publishers, Dec. 16, 1992)
    Examines the life of the African-American singer-actor who spoke out against racism and injustice.
    R
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Kathie Billingslea Smith, James Seward

    Library Binding (Julian Messner, April 1, 1987)
    A biography of the Baptist minister, orator, and crusader for equal civil rights who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
    N
  • George Washington

    Ray Bradbury

    Paperback (Little Simon, Feb. 15, 1987)
    Bradbury, Ray
  • ALBERT EINSTEIN: GREAT AMERICANS

    Ray Bradbury

    Mass Market Paperback (Little Simon, March 1, 1989)
    Traces the life and work of the physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking
    Z+
  • Frederick Douglass: Leader Against Slavery

    Patricia C. McKissack, Pat McKissack, Fredrick L. McKissack

    Library Binding (Enslow Publishers, Sept. 15, 1991)
    Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of this famous abolitionist.
    M
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Ray Bradbury

    Mass Market Paperback (Little Simon, March 1, 1989)
    Bradbury, Ray
    M
  • Ellison Onizuka

    Stephanie Cham

    Library Binding (Capstone Press, Jan. 1, 2018)
    How did Ellison Onizuka become an astronaut? Readers will learn all about how this famous Asian American went from Air Force pilot to NASA astronaut in this low-leveled biography.
    M
  • JOHN F KENNEDY

    Kathie Billingslea Smith, James Seward

    Paperback (Little Simon, Sept. 15, 1987)
    A biography of the dynamic leader who served as the thirty-fifth president of the United States until his assassination in 1963.
    N