Bibliograph

Hand in hand, ten Black men who changed America, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney

Type

Label

Hand in hand, ten Black men who changed America, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-238), filmography (p. 238), and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hand in hand

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographies

Responsibility statement

by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 7.5, 12, 12, 155785

Sub title

ten Black men who changed America

Summary

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 dayTen influential black men, including Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King Jr., are profiled in this book

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification