Pinkney, Andrea Davis

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



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