Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-146).
Contents
Langston Hughes : poet -- Jesse Owens : athlete -- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. : Tuskegee airman -- Fannie Lou Hamer : voter registration activist -- Coretta Scott King : civil rights leader -- Alex Haley : author -- Muhammad Ali : boxer -- Faith Ringgold : artist -- Alice Walker : author -- Gladys Knight : singer -- Bernice Johnson Reagon : singer/educator/artist -- Colin Powell : statesman/soldier -- Benjamin Carson : physician -- Morgan Freeman : actor -- Geoffrey Canada : social activist -- Ruth Simmons : university president.