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Author Altman, Susan.

Title Extraordinary Black Americans from colonial to contemporary times / by Susan Altman ; consultants, Tony Martin, Lynn Hemphill.

Publication Info. Chicago : Childrens Press, [1989]
©1989

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 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J920.0092 ALT    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  J920 ALT    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 973.049 ALTMAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J REF 920 AL79    In-Library Use Only
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHY J920 ALTMAN c.2  Check Shelf
Description 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 236).
Contents Estevanico -- Lucy Terry Prince -- Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable -- Crispus Attucks -- Benjamin Banneker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Peter Salem -- James Forten -- James Armistead -- Elizabeth Freeman -- Richard Allen -- Paul Cuffe -- Gabriel Prosser -- York -- Denmark Vesey -- Slave uprisings -- Garcia -- Black Seminoles -- Nat Turner -- Joseph Cinque -- James Beckwourth -- Madison Washington -- Norbert Rillieux -- Underground Railroad -- Lewis Temple -- Dred Scott -- Lewis Hayden -- Harriet Tubman -- Jermain Wesley Loguen -- John Anthony Copeland, Jr. -- Frederick Douglass -- Sojourner Truth -- George Washington -- Robert Smalls -- Charlotte Forten Grimke -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Black Civil War soldiers -- Reconstruction -- P. B. S. Pinchback -- Booker T. Washington -- Nat Love -- Jan Ernst Matzeliger -- George Jordan -- Lewis Howard Latimer -- Scott Joplin -- George Washington Williams -- George Washington Carver -- Granville T. Woods -- Daniel Hale Williams -- Madame C. J. Walker -- Charles Young -- Elijah McCoy.
Summary Presents short biographies of ninety-five black Americans from colonial to contemporary times, highlighting their personal achievements and their resulting contributions to the growth of American society.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.9 11.0 42989.
Subject African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography.
ISBN 0516005812
Standard No. 9780516005812
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