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The fierce 44 : Black Americans who shook up the world / written by the staff of The Undefeated ; portraits by Robert Ball ; edited by Stephen Reiss ; preface by Kevin Merida ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]

94 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

"A dynamic and hip collective biography that presents 44 of America's greatest movers and shakers from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Barack Obama, written by ESPN's TheUndefeated.com and illustrated with dazzling portraits by Rob Ball" --Provided by publisher.

African Americans -- Biography.

Biographies.

Reiss, Stephen, 1957- editor.

Ball, Robert, 1973- illustrator.

Merida, Kevin, author of preface.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author of foreword.

The Undefeated (Website) issuing body.

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Robert Abbott -- Alvin Ailey -- Muhammad Ali -- Richard Allen -- Maya Angelou -- Ella Baker -- James Baldwin -- Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Simone Biles -- Shirley Chisholm -- Benjamin O. Davis Sr. -- Frederick Douglass -- Charles Drew -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Duke Ellington -- Aretha Franklin -- Jimi Hendrix -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Jesse Jackson -- Jay-Z -- Katherine Johnson -- Quincy Jones -- Michael Jordan -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Henrietta Lacks -- Malcolm X -- Thurgood Marshall -- Toni Morrison -- Barack Obama -- Jesse Owens -- Gordon Parks -- Sidney Poitier -- Richard Pryor -- Jackie Robinson -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Booker T. Washington -- Ida B. Wells -- Serena Williams -- August Wilson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Stevie Wonder.

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