Series:

Great African Americans S.

17 total works

Cover of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the revered civil rights pioneer.

Cover of Madam C.J.Walker
Describes the life of the black laundress who founded a cosmetics company and became the first female self-made millionaire in the United States.

Cover of George Washington Carver
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.

Cover of Louis Armstrong
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the jazz trumpeter who was nicknamed Satchmo.

Cover of Carter G.Woodson
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the man who first pioneered the study of black history.

Cover of Booker T.Washington
A biography of the former slave who founded Tuskegee University and later became the most powerful African American leader at the turn of the century.

Cover of Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson

by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack

Published 1 September 1992
Examines the life of the African-American singer-actor who spoke out against racism and injustice.

Cover of Jesse Owens
Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend, and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority.

Cover of Frederick Douglass
Describes the life and work of the man who escaped slavery to become an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the nineteenth century.

Cover of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

by Pat McKissack and Fredrick McKissack

Published 1 October 1992
Describes the life of the anti-slavery and women's rights activist, from her beginnings in slavery to her tireless campaign for the rights and welfare of the freedmen.

Cover of Langston Hughes
Simple text and illustrations describe the life of the Harlem poet whose work gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.

Cover of Mary Church Terrell
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of this civil rights activist.

Cover of Satchel Paige
Describes the life of one of baseball's greatest pitchers, who was unable to play Major League baseball due to segregation for many years, after which he became the first black pitcher in the American League.

Cover of Zora Neale Hurston
Traces the life of the Harlem Renaissance writer and folklorist, who worked to preserve the rich storytelling tradition of African-Americans in the South.

Cover of Marian Anderson
Tells the story of the African-American singer who struggled against prejudice to become one of the great opera performers of the century.

Cover of Ida B.Wells-Barnett
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.

Cover of Ralph J.Bunche
Biography of the African-American statesman and diplomat who was one of the founders of the United Nations and who received the Nobel Prize for his peacemaking efforts.