Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world

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Title:

Brave, black, first : 50+ African American women who changed the world

Author:

Hudson, Cheryl Willis, author.

Robinson, Erin, illustrator.

National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

Smithsonian Institution.

Summary:

An illustrated biographical compilation of over fifty African American women from the 1700s through to the present day.

General Note:

"Published in collaboration with curators from Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture"--Back cover.

Includes index.

Edition:

First edition.

Contents:

Ruby Bridges -- Marian Anderson -- Althea Gibson -- Toni Morrison -- Michelle Obama -- Sojourner Truth -- Bessie Coleman -- Nina Simone -- Ida B. Wells -- Barbara Jordan -- Aretha Franklin -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Katherine Johnson -- Shirley Chisholm -- Lena Horne -- Wilma Rudolph -- Faith Ringgold -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Diana Ross -- Augusta Fells Savage -- Condoleeza Rice -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ibtihaj Muhammad -- Ann Lowe -- Ntozake Shange -- Carla Hayden -- Sheryl Swoopes -- Dorothy Irene Height -- Misty Copeland -- Angela Davis -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Serena Williams -- Phillis Wheatley -- Rosa Parks -- Leontyne Price -- Harriet Tubman -- Ruby Dee -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Mae C. Jemison -- Susie King Taylor -- Loretta Lynch -- Maya Angelou -- Beyoncé Knowles-Carter -- Simone Biles -- Ava DuVernay -- Judith Jamison -- Oprah Winfrey --

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Genre:

Biographies.

Anecdotes.

Subject Term:

African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- History -- Anecdotes -- Juvenile literature.

Heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Author(s):

Robinson, Erin,