Books with title JACKIE MITCHELL, SINGLE COPY, SOFTCOVER, BEGINNING BIOGRAPHIES

Explores teh life and career of the second woman ever to play professional baseball who believed that women had the skills to play on the same teams as men and spent her life fighting for women's rights in sports.

A simple biography of the black engineer who invented the automatic lubricator for railway systems and thus gave rise to the phrase "the real McCoy".

A brief biography of an African American inventor that describes, in rhyming text, how his lifelong interest in machines led to the invention of the traffic signal.

Selma Burke was committed to teaching art to others, to that end she established the Selma Burke Art School in New York City, NY and opened the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, PA.

Book by MODERN CURRICULUM PRESS

Book by MODERN CURRICULUM PRESS

As an inventor, map maker, and astronomer in Colonial times, Benjamin Banneker helped lay the foundation for an emerging country.

Examines the life of the first black man to be appointed an associate justice of the highest court in the country.

Many consider him the finest all-around American athlete ever. From baseball to football, this Olympic champion made his mark.

Book by MODERN CURRICULUM PRESS

A biography of the Osage Indian ballerina whose love of dance took her from life on a reservation to a career on the stage.

A brief biography of the slave who learned to read and write, became the second woman in America to have a book published, and won international fame for her poetry.