Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America

Title:

Author:

Pinkney, Andrea Davis.

Added Author:

Pinkney, J. Brian,

Personal Author:

Pinkney, Andrea Davis.

ISBN:

9781423142577

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun Books, 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.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Social change -- History -- Juvenile literature.

African American men -- Biography.

African Americans -- Biography.

Social change -- History.

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.

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In this New York Times Notable Children's Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, follow the life stories of ten Black men in American history and the legacies they left that forever changed the country.

Hand in Hand presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the "freedom chain." This book will be the definitive family volume on the subject, punctuated with dynamic full color portraits and spot illustrations by two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Brian Pinkney. Backmatter includes a civil rights timeline, sources, and further reading.

Profiled:

Benjamin Banneker Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois A. Philip Randolph Thurgood Marshall Jackie Robinson Malcolm X Martin Luther King, Jr Barack H. Obama II

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Addressing the appetites of readers "hungry for role models," this presents compellingly oratorical pictures of the lives and characters of 10 African-American men who exemplify a "birthright of excellence." Each of the chronologically arranged chapters opens with a tone-setting praise song and a commanding close-up portrait. From Benjamin Banneker, whose accusatory letter to slaveholder Thomas Jefferson "socked it straight / to the secretary of state," to Barack Obama, who "turned Yes, we can! into a celebration call," the gallery is composed of familiar names. Instead of rehashing well-chewed biographical fodder, though, the author dishes up incidents that shaped and tested her subjects' moral and intellectual fiber along with achievements that make her chosen few worth knowing and emulating. Carping critics may quibble about the occasional arguable fact and an implication that Rosa Parks' protest was spontaneous, but like Malcolm X, Pinkney has such "a hot-buttered way with words" that her arguments are as convincing as they are forceful, and her prose, rich as it is in rolling cadences and internal rhymes, never waxes mannered or preachy. A feast for readers whose eyes are (or should be) on the prize, in a volume as well-turned-out as the dapper W.E.B. Dubois, who was "more handsome than a fresh-cut paycheck." (timeline, index, lists of recommended reading and viewing) (Collective biography. 10-15)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.