Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
Title
:
Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
Author
:
Pinkney, Andrea Davis author.
ISBN
:
9781423142577
Edition
:
1st ed.
Publication Information
:
New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun, c2012.
Physical Description
:
243 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Contents
:
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, Jr. : Holding on to Hope -- Timeline.
Reading Level
:
970 L Lexile
Personal Subject
:
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Obama, Barack.
Subject Term
:
African American men -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Social change -- United States -- History.
Added Author
:
Pinkney, J. Brian
Summary
:
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.
| Library | Call Number | Status |
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| Bayport Public Library | J 920 PIN | Nonfiction Collection |
| Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | J 920 PIN | Nonfiction Collection |
| Oakdale Library | J 920 PIN | Nonfiction Collection |
| R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | J 920 PIN | Nonfiction Collection |
| Stillwater Public Library | J 920 PIN | Nonfiction Collection |
| Valley Library (Lakeland) | J 920 PIN | Nonfiction Collection |