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Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world Cover Image Book

Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world / Cheryl Willis Hudson ; illustrations by Erin K. Robinson.

Brave, black, first : (other title)
Brave, black, first : (other title)
Hudson, Cheryl Willis, (author.). Robinson, Erin, (illustrator.). National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) (Added Author). Smithsonian Institution. (Added Author).

Summary:

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525645818
  • ISBN: 0525645810
  • ISBN: 9780525645825
  • ISBN: 0525645829
  • ISBN: 9780525645849
  • ISBN: 0525645845
  • Physical Description: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020].

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Published in collaboration with curators from Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture"--Back cover.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 -- Black lives matter -- Learn more about the women of brave. black. first. -- Image credits -- At the National Museum of African American History and Culture -- At the National Portait Gallery -- A note from the author and illustrator -- About the National Museum of African American History and Culture -- Index.
Target Audience Note:
NC1270L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.9 4 511508.

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Genre: Biographies.
Illustrated works.
Anecdotes.

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