First Biographies
7 total works
Introduces the life and accomplishments of the artist who invented a Mexican style of painting and who brought art out of museums and onto public walls.
A biography of the son of a Thembu chief who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa.
Introduces the life and accomplishments of the Democrat who was elected president to two successive terms, 1992 and 1996.
Introduces the life and accomplishments of the first woman to be named to the Supreme Court.
Describes the life of the Indian activist who became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
A brief biography of the African American who, in refusing to obey a discriminatory rule about bus seating, set off both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a movement that changed the nation's laws.
Relates the life and accomplishments of John Chapman.