Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the lives of brave black men and women during the Civil Rights Movement:
LOUIS "SATCHMO" ARMSTRONG
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR.
W. E. B. DU BOIS
LIEUTENANT HENRY O. FLIPPER
MARCUS GARVEY
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
THURGOOD MARSHALL
ROSA PARKS
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR.
PHILIP RANDOLPH
PAUL ROBESON
JACKIE ROBINSON
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT
CARTER G. WOODSON
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR.
"The books in the Black Stars series are the types of books that would have really captivated me as a kid."
—Earl G. Graves, Black Enterprise magazine
"Inspiring stories that demonstrate what can happen when ingenuity and tenacity are paired with courage and hard work."
—Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books
"Haskins has chosen his subjects well . . . catching a sense of the enormous obstacles they had to overcome. . . . Some names are familiar, but most are little-known whom Haskins elevates to their rightful place in history."
—Booklist
"The broad coverage makes this an unusual resource–a jumping-off point for deeper studies."
—Horn Book
Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the lives of brave black men and women during the Civil Rights Movement:
LOUIS "SATCHMO" ARMSTRONG
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR.
W. E. B. DU BOIS
LIEUTENANT HENRY O. FLIPPER
MARCUS GARVEY
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
THURGOOD MARSHALL
ROSA PARKS
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JR.
PHILIP RANDOLPH
PAUL ROBESON
JACKIE ROBINSON
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT
CARTER G. WOODSON
WHITNEY M. YOUNG JR.
"The books in the Black Stars series are the types of books that would have really captivated me as a kid."
—Earl G. Graves, Black Enterprise magazine
"Inspiring stories that demonstrate what can happen when ingenuity and tenacity are paired with courage and hard work."
—Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books
"Haskins has chosen his subjects well . . . catching a sense of the enormous obstacles they had to overcome. . . . Some names are familiar, but most are little-known whom Haskins elevates to their rightful place in history."
—Booklist
"The broad coverage makes this an unusual resource–a jumping-off point for deeper studies."
—Horn Book
This book explains the emergence of two competing forms of black political representation that transformed the objectives and meanings of local action, created boundaries between national and local...
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