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Freedom Facts and Firsts
ISBN: 9781578591923
Published 2009
$24.95

African American Hero of the Day:

Who, at the age of 93 years old, led and won a fight to desegregated public facilities in Washington, D.C.?

  • She was a charter member of the NAACP.
  • In 1895, she was appointed to the District of Columbia’s school board.
  • She was elected founding president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
  • She wrote A Colored Women in a White World (1940).

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Freedom Facts and Firsts Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
by Jessie Carney Smith and Linda T Wynn

Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, this guide book profiles more than 400 people, places, and events that have... Read More »

ISBN: 9781578591923
Published 2009
$24.95
African American Almanac African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage and Excellence
NEW by Lean'tin Bracks

A wealth of milestones, inspiration, and challenges met . . . The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African... Read More »

ISBN: 9781578593231
Published 2012
$22.95
Black Firsts 2nd ed. Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Events, 2nd Edition
by Jessie Carney Smith

Black Firsts is a testament to a rich but often overlooked part of our history. Jessie Carney Smith, William and Camille Cosby Professor of the... Read More »

ISBN: 9781578591428
Published 2002
$24.95
Black Heroes Black Heroes
by Jessie Carney Smith

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress," wrote Frederick Douglass. "This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may... Read More »

ISBN: 9781578591367
Published 2001
$29.95
Freedom Facts and Firsts Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience
by Jessie Carney Smith and Linda T Wynn

Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, this guide book profiles more than 400 people, places, and events that have... Read More »

ISBN: 9781578591923
Published 2009
$24.95