Black Americans of achievement
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Black Americans of achievement
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Black Americans of achievement
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- Joe Louis, heavyweight champion, Robert Jakoubek
- Josephine Baker, Alan Schroeder ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- Sojourner Truth, Peter Krass ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- Langston Hughes, Jack Rummel ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- Lena Horne, Leslie Palmer ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist, Lisa Renee Rhodes ; with additional text written by Dale Evva Gelfand ; consulting editor, revised edition, Heather Lehr Wagner ; senior consulting editor, first edition, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- James Baldwin, Lisa Rosset
- Louis Armstrong, musician, Kenneth Partridge
- Ralph Ellison, Jack Bishop
- Barbara Jordan, politician, by Corinne Naden and Rose Blue
- Prince Hall, social reformer, Arthur Diamond ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Thurgood Marshall, Lisa Aldred
- Marcus Garvey, Mary Lawler ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Witcover
- Benjamin Banneker, Kevin Conley
- Elijah Muhammad, religious leader, Malu Halasa
- James Weldon Johnson, Jane Tolbert-Rouchaleau ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins
- Ronald McNair, Corinne Naden ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- Booker T. Washington, Alan Schroeder
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Jakoubek
- Alex Haley, David Shirley
- Billie Holiday, Bud Kliment
- Rosa Parks, [civil rights leader], Mary Hull ; introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- Richard Allen, religious leader and social activist, by Steve Klots
- Muhammad Ali, Jack Rummel ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- Sidney Poitier, Carol Bergman : [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- Magic Johnson, Sean Dolan
- Count Basie, bandleader and composer, by Bud Kliment