(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and career of Coretta Scott King, from her childhood in Alabama, through her work with the civil rights movement, to her continuing efforts on behalf of the underprivileged.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and career of Jackie Robinson, from his childhood in Pasadena, California, through his struggles with prejudice and discrimination, to his success as a major league baseball player.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles the dynamic man who began life as a slave and became an artist, agriculturist, university professor, and public speaker who addressed the House Ways and Means Committee on the issue of import tariffs in 1921.
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Provides a portrait of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman best known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, at the beginning of the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Born into poverty, Richard Wright managed to complete only an eighth-grade education. Yet by at the age of 33, he was the best-selling author of what would become an American classic, Native Son. Before dying prematurely at the age of fifty-two, he published nearly a dozen books and left behind hundreds of unpublished manuscript pages. This biography traces Wright's life, while he attempted to answer the question, "How can I live freely?"
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection. Paul Robeson was, at points in his life, an actor, singer, football player, political activist and writer, one of the most diversely talented members of the Harlem Renaissance. Swindall centers Robeson's story around the argument that while Robeson leaned...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Language
English
Formats
Description
W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African-American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Alexander traces the development of Du Bois' thought over time.
"W. E.B. Du Bois was one of the most prolific African American authors, scholars, and leaders of the twentieth century, but none of his previous biographies have so practically and comprehensively introduced the man and his impact on American history as...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Madam C. J. Walker is reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the first biography of Martin Luther King to look at his life through the prism of his evolving faith, distinguished historian Paul Harvey examines Martin Luther King's life through his complex, emerging, religious lives. Harvey's concise biography will allow readers to see King anew in the context of his time and today"--
