Portraits of African-American HeroesProfiles twenty outstanding African Americans from the sciences, the arts, politics, literature, sports, education, and adventure. |
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African American Alvin Ailey America artist autobiography aviation school baseball Ben Carson Bennie Bessie Coleman Bethune's black person black woman BORN boycott Brown Bomber Carolina Charlayne Hunter-Gault Chelsea House Chicago civil rights cofounder Colored Dancing Spirit DIED Dizzy Gillespie dream earned Fame father Frederick Douglass girl graduated Gwendolyn Brooks Harlem heavyweight high school ibid inspired Jacob Lawrence Jake jazz Joe Louis Judith Jamison Langston Hughes Law School Leagues learning lives Malcolm Malcolm X Marshall's Martin Luther King Mary McLeod Bethune Maryland Matthew Henson mother NAACP National Negro newspaper North Pole paintings parents Paul Robeson Pauli Murray Pearl Primus Peary poetry portraits prayed president quoted rallies Ruth Simmons Satchel Paige Schmeling Scholastic segregation Shirley Chisholm soul Story teacher Thurgood Marshall train University W.E.B. Du Bois Washington women York City young