Author : Kareem Abdul-jabbar
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780688130978
Recounts inspirational stories of influential African Americans, such as Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Charles Drew, Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and others. 150,000 first printing. Tour.
Author : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780606199643
Recounts inspirational stories of influential African Americans, including Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, and Rosa Parks.
Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Verity Associates
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780972804202
Author : Bill Adler
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1972
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Lean'tin Bracks
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1578593824
The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence provides insights on the influence, inspiration, and impact of African Americans on U.S. society and culture. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph is presented through a fascinating mix of biographies—including 750 influential figures—little-known or misunderstood historical facts, enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements, and 445 rare photographs and illustrations. Covering politics, education, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, sports, literature, music, dance, theater, art, film, and television, chapters address the important events and social and cultural changes that affected African Americans over the centuries, followed by biographical profiles of hundreds of key figures, including Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Amiri Baraka, Daisy Bates, George Washington Carver, Ray Charles, Bessie Coleman, Gary Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michael Eric Dyson, Duke Ellington, Medgar Evers, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Eric H. Holder Jr., Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeBron James, Mae C. Jemison, Martin Luther King Jr., Queen Latifah, Jacob Lawrence, Kevin Liles, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Mosley, Elijah Muhammad, Barack Obama, Gordon Parks, Rosa Parks, Richard Pryor, Condoleezza Rice, Smokey Robinson, Wilma Rudolph, Betty Shabazz, Tavis Smiley, Clarence Thomas, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Ross Tubman, C. Delores Tucker, Usher, Denmark Vesey, Alice Walker, Booker T. Washington, Kanye West, Reggie White, Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X. Explore a wealth of milestones, inspiration, challenges met, and lasting respect! The African American Almanac’s helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.
Author : Dave Sandles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2017-07-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781537608846
Often erroneously typecast as sidekicks, subordinate, or inconsequential, Black superheroes serve as beacons of courage for scores of readers. In this collection of essays, the courageous exploits of seven prominent Black superheroes are identified, analyzed and juxtaposed with those of accepted American heroes. The Black heroes profiled here are seven immensely dynamic characters, each with considerable contributions to the collective advancement of Black consciousness. This compendium examines courageous examples of speech and actions evinced by each character, and seeks to illuminate the importance of Black characters in the pantheon of heroes, while also accreting the perception of Black heroes as viable, courageous lionhearts.
Author : Eli Granger
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Businesswomen
ISBN : 142597418X
The book lays out the evolutionary, historical and scientific evidence that a psychological immune system exists and details how this system functions and the impact it has had on our personal, social and national life. It shows ways that it can be helpful in our attempt to identify and handle the threats and dangers that face us just as our biological immune system does. And, like our biological immune system, it has the potential to be both beneficial and lethal.
Author : Mildred Pitts Walter
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496825845
In 1922, Mildred Pitts Walter was born in DeRidder, Louisiana, to a log cutter and a midwife/beautician. She became the first member of her family to go to college, graduating in 1940. Walter moved to California, where she worked as an elementary school teacher. After being encouraged by a publisher to write books for and about African American children, Walter went on to become a pioneer of African American children's literature. Most notably, she wrote Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, which bent preconceptions with tales of black cowboys and men doing “women’s work.” She was also a contributing book reviewer to the Los Angeles Times. In Something Inside So Strong: Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage, and Change, Walter recollects major touchstones in her life. The autobiography, divided into three parts, “Choice,” “Courage,” and “Change,” covers Walter’s life beginning with her childhood in the 1920s and moving to the present day. In “Choice,” Walter describes growing up in a deeply segregated Louisiana and includes memories of school, rural home life, World War II, and participating in neighborhood activities like hog killing and church revivals. “Courage” documents her adjustment to living away from family, her experiences teaching in Los Angeles, and her extensive work with her husband for the Los Angeles chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. The final section, “Change,” shows how Walter’s writing and activism merged, detailing her work as an education consultant and as an advocate for nonviolent resistance to racism. It also reveals how her world travels expanded her personal inquiry into Christianity and African spirituality. Something Inside So Strong is one woman’s journey to self-discovery.
Author : Mary Harding Bell
Publisher : Amer Literary Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781561676668
