Series:

Great African Americans

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

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 Madam C.J. Walker

Madam C.J. Walker

by Pat McKissack and Fredrick McKissack

Published 16 January 2001

Cover of Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

by Pat McKissack

Published 16 January 2001

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 Booker T. Washington

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.

Cover of Carter G. Woodson