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Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world
—Hudson, Cheryl Willis, author.
2020

Book

An illustrated biographical compilation of over fifty African American women from the 1700s through to the present day.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780525645818
  • 0525645810

Edition: First edition.

Description: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm

Notes:

  • "Published in collaboration with curators from Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture"--Back cover.
  • Includes index.

Contents:

  • Ruby Bridges
  • Marian Anderson
  • Althea Gibson
  • Toni Morrison
  • Michelle Obama
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Bessie Coleman
  • Nina Simone
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Barbara Jordan
  • Aretha Franklin
  • Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Katherine Johnson
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Lena Horne
  • Wilma Rudolph
  • Faith Ringgold
  • Madam C. J. Walker
  • Diana Ross
  • Augusta Fells Savage
  • Condoleeza Rice
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Ibtihaj Muhammad
  • Ann Lowe
  • Ntozake Shange
  • Carla Hayden
  • Sheryl Swoopes
  • Dorothy Irene Height
  • Misty Copeland
  • Angela Davis
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Elizabeth Catlett
  • Serena Williams
  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Rosa Parks
  • Leontyne Price
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Ruby Dee
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Mae C. Jemison
  • Susie King Taylor
  • Loretta Lynch
  • Maya Angelou
  • Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
  • Simone Biles
  • Ava DuVernay
  • Judith Jamison
  • Oprah Winfrey.

Publisher: New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2020]
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