Carefully researched, finely rendered collection of ready-to-color illustrations pays tribute to 45 remarkableΒ African AmericansΒ β among them Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Marian Anderson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Hale, Althea Gibson, Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Dunham,
Great African Americans
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64 pages : 26 cm
Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presenceβlet alone importanceβof African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Ameri
<p>Between the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of World War 2, Africans displaced by colonial rule created an African-American myth - a myth which aggrandized the life and attainments of African Americans despite full knowledge of the discrimination to which they were subjected. The m