Interesting People: Black American History Makers
- ISBN-10
- 0899504035
- ISBN-13
- 9780899504032
- Category
- Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Author
- George L. Lee
Description
Cameo biographies along with Lee's famous pen-and-ink portraits make this book an inviting and inspiring browser for students as well as a useful reference to teachers, writers, librarians, black community leaders and the general reader.Both major achievements and little-known interesting facts are given on over 200 Americans. The coverage is broad: past and present leaders, performers, musicians and sports greats, scientists, writers and military men and women.The material is drawn from a newspaper feature which the author created in 1945. The feature continued until 1986 and has appeared in most of the major black newspapers in the United States.
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