Famous American Negroes /
Portrays the lives of seventeen outstanding African Americans, illustrated with photographs.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dodd, Mead & Compamy,
1954.
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| Series: | Famous biographies for young people.
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Table of Contents:
- Phillis Wheatley : whose poetry George Washington praised
- Richard Allen : founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Ira Aldridge : a star who never came home
- Frederick Douglass : fighter for freedom
- Harriet Tubman : the Moses of her people
- Booker T. Washington : founder of Tuskegee
- Daniel Hale Williams : great physician
- Henry Ossawa Tanner : whose painting hangs in the Luxembourg
- George Washington Carver : agricultural chemist
- Robert S. Abbott : a crusading journalist
- Paul Laurence Dunbar: the Robert Burns of Negro poetry
- W.C. Handy : father of the Blues
- Charles C. Spaulding : executive of world's largest Negro business
- A. Philip Randolph : distinguished labor leader
- Ralph Bunche: statesman and political scientist
- Marian Anderson : famous concert singer
- Jackie Robinson : first Negro in big league baseball.