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Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney. |
| Authors: | Pinkney, Andrea Davis. |
| Call number: | j920.073 PIN |
| Publisher: | New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun, c2012. |
| Publication date: | c2012. |
| Subject: |
African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Social change -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature. Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 -- Juvenile literature. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Juvenile literature. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 -- Juvenile literature. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Juvenile literature. Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 -- Juvenile literature. Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 -- Juvenile literature. Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Juvenile literature. X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 -- Juvenile literature. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature. Obama, Barack -- Juvenile literature. |
| Title: | Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | 243 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Added author: | Pinkney, J. Brian, ill. |
| ISBN: | 9781423142577 (hbk.) 1423142578 (hbk.) |
| LCCN: | 2011051348 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1408196 |
| Bib No.: | 1408196 |