Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America Print
by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney.
- First edition.
- 243 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm Hardback book.
Includes filmography, page 238.; NM Battle of the Books 2013, Middle School Reading List.
Benjamin Banneker : Surveyor of the Sky -- Frederick Douglass : Capital Orator -- Booker T. Washington : Polished Pioneer -- W.E.B. DuBois : Erudite Educator -- A. Philip Randolph : Always Striding Ahead -- Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights -- Jackie Robinson : Game-Changer -- Malcolm X : Spark-Light -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : Nonviolent Visionary -- Barack H. Obama II : Holding on to Hope -- Time line.
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
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Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 Randolph, A. Philip 1889-1979 Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 King, Martin Luther, 1929-1968 Obama, Barack
African American men Social change--History--United States African American men African Americans