| Edition |
1st Carroll & Graf ed. |
| Description |
xii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Ancestors--Ellington's mentor: Will Marion Cook -- Albert Murray and Louis Armstrong -- The craft of Ralph Ellison -- From Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis -- Variations on a theme : Romare Bearden, artist -- Ancestors--Meta Warrick Fuller, sculptor -- The painters : Lois Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence -- All the world's their stage : Paul Robeson and Ira Aldridge -- Gordon Parks : a lens on humanity -- Ancestors--Mary McLeod Bethune, educator -- A teacher's mission : Elma Lewis -- The philosphers : Cornel West and the Du Bois/Locke legacy -- Toni Morrison : Nobel prize for literature -- Timeless voices, parallel realities : James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass. |
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(Cont'd) Ancestors--Lewis Latimer and the early black inventors -- The laser physicist and the computer wizard : Earl and Alan Shaw -- Bob Moses and the algebra project -- Ancestors--The astronomer/surveyor : Benjamin Banneker -- The architects : Charles and Cheryl McAfee -- Ancestors--the physician's Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cooke Wright -- Byllye Avery and the National Black Women's Health Project -- Ancestors--Sojourner Truth and the nineteenth-century visionaries -- Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and the Martin Luther King legacy. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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African American intellectuals -- Biography.
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African American intellectuals. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
African American artists -- Biography.
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African American artists -- Biography. |
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Genius -- United States.
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Genius. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0786704551 |
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