Zora Neale Hurston: Harlem Renaissance Writer (Essential Lives Set 2) (Essential Lives)
by Katie Marsico
Squanto and the First Thanksgiving (Holiday on My Own Books (Hardcover)) (On My Own. S.)
by Joyce K Kessel
Describes how the Indian Squanto, an English-speaking Christian and former slave, whose village had been wiped out by smallpox, taught the Pilgrims the skills they needed to survive the harsh Massachusetts winter.
Ferguson's Career Biographies tell the stories of some of the world's most influential and admired people. This book focuses on Oprah Winfrey, looking at his early education and training, the challenges he faced on the job, important mentors and his career achievement.
The Frederick Douglass You Never Knew (You Never Knew )
by James Lincoln Collier
Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of this former slave who went on to become an abolitionist and advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Madame C. J. Walker (21st Century Skills Library: Life Skills Biographies) (Life Skills Biographies)
by Katie Marsico
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Carole Boston Weatherford
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history. Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people...
True stories and traditional songs shed light on a lesser known era in African-American history — the crucial decades between Emancipation and the start of the Civil Rights movement. In the dark of night, a mother risks her life to search for her four children, stolen by her former master. A wife refuses to hand her husband over to an angry white-hooded mob, despite the wailing of her babies — and the foot stomping on her pregnant belly. A woman calmly takes her seat in a first-class coach and...
A biography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending. This biography shares the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending.
In 1770, the slave Esperanca Garcia bravely penned a letter to the governor of Piaui state, in Brazil, describing how she and her children were being mistreated and requesting permission to return to the farm where the rest of her family was living. Before she wrote her letter, Esperanca Garcia lived on a cotton farm run by Jesuit priests, where she learned to read and write -- a rare opportunity for a woman, especially a slave. But one day she was separated from her husband and older children a...
Describes the racial prejudice experienced by Jackie Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black player in Major League baseball and depicts the acceptance and support he received from his white teammate Pee Wee Reese.
A Reader's Guide to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (Multicultural Literature)
by Heather Lee Schroeder
"An introduction to Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader"--Provided by publisher.
Easy Biographies: Jim Thorpe
by Santrey Laurence and Laurence Santrey
Childhood memoirs of three black women--grandmother, mother, and daughter-who grew up between the 1880's and the 1950's
Kobe Bryant (Epic Sports Bios (Lerner Sports)) (Epic Sports BIOS (Lerner (Tm) Sports))
by Percy Leed
Library Book: A Weed Is a Flower
General relativity is discussed in this book at a level appropriate to undergraduate students of physics and astronomy. It describes concepts and experimental results, and provides a succinct account of formalism. A brief review of special relativity is followed by a discussion of the equivalence principle and its implications. Other topics covered include concepts of curvature and the Schwarzschild metric, tests of the general theory, black holes and their properties, gravitational radiation...
Examines the life and accomplishments of the African American writer, performer, and teacher. Includes a selection of her poetry.