African American Biographies

Black Stars of Civil War Times

Black Stars of Civil War Times

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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes.


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Landmarks of African American History

Landmarks of African American History

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Grade 8 Up–African-American history has been approached in a number of ways, through cultural and social histories with atlases, biographies, and almanacs.


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African American Women Writers

African American Women Writers


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Negro with a Hat

Negro with a Hat

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Colin Grant`s biography of Marcus Garvey, a significant, if little understood, figure in African and African American history, relates the life and achievements of the man who is most known for his controversial return to Africa movement. Colin Gran...


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Vision of Beauty

Vision of Beauty

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This biography tells the story of Sarah Breedlove, the first African-American woman who developed and marketed her own cosmetics business, primarily designed to serve the African-American woman. Although she grew up in a poor family, married at th...


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Come by Here

Acclaimed African American writer Clarence Major explores the boundaries of identity, race, and color in this inspired autobiography of his mother, who passed as white without erasing her past as an African American woman.


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