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Format:

Book

Author:

Pinkney, Andrea Davis, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun Books, [2012]

Description:

243 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

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 day.

Target Audience Note:

Middle School.

970L Lexile.

Subjects:

Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 -- Juvenile literature.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Juvenile literature.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 -- Juvenile literature.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Juvenile literature.

Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 -- Juvenile literature.

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 -- Juvenile literature.

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Juvenile literature.

X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 -- Juvenile literature.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature.

Obama, Barack -- Juvenile literature.

African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Social change -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Other Author:

Pinkney, J. Brian, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes filmography, page 238.

Includes bibliographical references, pages 236-238, and index.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.5 12.0 155785.

Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 7.5 12 SD Quiz 155785 English non-fiction.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.5 12.0 155785.

Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2013.

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 II : Holding on to Hope -- Time line.

LCCN:

2011051348

ISBN:

9781423142577

1423142578

9780605711273

0605711275

* 9781423183037

* 1423183037

9781423142577

1423142578

Other Number:

769289596

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

347183

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

j 973 Pinkney