African-American biographies
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The series African-American biographies represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in Jacksonville Public Library.
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African-American biographies
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The series African-American biographies represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in Jacksonville Public Library.
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39 Items in the Series African-American biographies
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- Zora Neale Hurston : Southern storyteller
- A. Philip Randolph : union leader and civil rights crusader
- Alvin Ailey : celebrating African-American culture in dance
- Barbara Jordan : congresswoman, lawyer, educator
- Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician
- Bessie Coleman : first black woman pilot
- Betty Shabazz : sharing the vision of Malcolm X
- Carter G. Woodson : father of African-American history
- Colin Powell : soldier and patriot
- Coretta Scott King : striving for civil rights
- Denzel Washington : Academy award-winning actor
- Dr. Charles Drew : blood bank innovator
- Fannie Lou Hamer : fighting for the right to vote
- George Washington Carver : scientist and inventor
- Harriet Tubman : Moses of the Underground Railroad
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : crusader against lynching
- Jackie Robinson : baseball's civil rights legend
- Julian Bond : civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP
- Kweisi Mfume : congressman and NAACP leader
- Langston Hughes : poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- Lorraine Hansberry : playwright and voice of justice
- Madam C.J. Walker : self-made businesswoman
- Mahalia Jackson : the voice of gospel and civil rights
- Marcus Garvey : controversial champion of black pride
- Marian Anderson : singer and humanitarian
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : leader for civil rights
- Mary Church Terrell : speaking out for civil rights
- Mary McLeod Bethune : educator and activist
- Maya Angelou : more than a poet
- Nikki Giovanni, poet of the people
- Paul Robeson : actor, singer, political activist
- Quincy Jones : musician, composer, producer
- Richard Wright : author of Native son and Black boy
- Thurgood Marshall : civil rights attorney and Supreme Court justice
- Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author
- W.E.B. Du Bois : champion of civil rights
- Walter Dean Myers--writer for real teens
- Whoopi Goldberg : comedian and movie star
- Wilma Rudolph : the greatest woman sprinter in history
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