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    That they lived : African Americans who changed the world / Rochelle Riley and Cristi Smith-Jones.

    • Title:That they lived : African Americans who changed the world / Rochelle Riley and Cristi Smith-Jones.
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    • Author/Creator:Riley, Rochelle, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Smith-Jones, Cristi, author.
    • Published/Created:Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2021]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.
      African Americans--History--Juvenile literature.
      African Americans.
      United States--History--Juvenile literature.
      United States--History.
    • Genre/Form:Biographies.
      Informational works.
      Essays.
    • Description:xxiii, 125 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
    • Series:Painted turtle book.
    • Summary:"That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World features Riley's grandson, Caleb, and Lola photographed in timeless black and white, dressed as important individuals such as business owners, educators, civil rights leaders, and artists, alongside detailed biographies that begin with the figures as young children who had the same ambitions, fears, strengths, and obstacles facing them that readers today may still experience. Muhammad Ali's bike was stolen when he was twelve years old and the police officer he reported the crime to suggested he learn how to fight before he caught up with the thief. Bessie Coleman, the first African American female aviator, collected and washed her neighbors' dirty laundry so she could raise enough money for college. When Duke Ellington was seven years old, he preferred playing baseball to attending the piano lessons his mom had arranged. That They Lived fills in gaps in the history that American children have been taught for generations. For African American children, it will prove that they are more than descendants of the enslaved. For all children, it will show that every child can achieve great things and work together to make the world a better place for all."--Google Books.
    • ISBN:9780814347546 paperback
      0814347541 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Muhammad Ali
      Shirley Chisholm
      Bessie Coleman
      Frederick Douglass
      W.E.B. Du Bois
      Duke Ellington
      Aretha Franklin
      Fannie Lou Hamer
      Katherine Johnson
      Martin Luther King Jr.
      Thurgoodmarshall
      Barackobama
      Rosa Parks And Claudette Colvin
      Jackie Robinson
      Harriet Tubman
      Madam C.J. Walker
      Booker T. Washington
      Ida B. Wells
      Stevie Wonder.
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