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Title Little legends : exceptional men in black history / Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson.
Publisher New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Copyright ©2019
Description 86 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition First edition.


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 HF-Juv. Non fiction  J920.71 HAR Nearby on shelf  30632003924556 02-28-24  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references, discography, and filmography.
Contents Introduction -- Benjamin Banneker -- James Armistead Lafayette -- Frederick Douglass -- Bass Reeves -- Robert Smalls -- Charles Henry Turner -- Arturo Schomburg -- Garrett Morgan -- Marshall "Major" Taylor -- Harold Moody -- Oscar Micheaux -- Paul Robeson -- Aaron Douglas -- Louis Armstrong -- Langston Hughes -- Charles R. Drew -- John Robinson -- Thurgood Marshall -- Gordon Parks -- Jacob Lawrence -- Ousmane Sembène -- James Baldwin -- Harry Belafonte -- Alvin Ailey -- Bill Russell -- Eddie Mabo -- Paul Stephenson -- John Lewis -- Arthur Ashe -- André Leon Talley -- Prince -- Chuck D. -- Dwayne McDuffie -- Leland Melvin -- Sir David Adjaye -- More little legends -- Further reading -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Draw your own little legend.
Summary The legends in this book span centuries and continents, but each one blazed a trail for generations to come.
Audience Ages 8-12
1080L Lexile
Subject African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Picture books for children.
Add'l Names Johnson, Kwesi, contributor.
Other title Exceptional men in black history
ISBN 9780316475143
0316475149