Book
Hand in hand : ten Black men who changed America
Record details
- ISBN: 9781423142577 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1423142578 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9781423183037
- ISBN: 1423183037
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Physical Description:
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243 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Disney/Jump at the Sun, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Benjamin Banneker : Surveyor of the Sky -- Frederick Douglass : Capital Orator -- Booker T. Washington : Polished Pioneer -- W.E.B. DuBois : Erudite Educator -- A. Philip Randolph : Always Striding Ahead -- Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights -- Jackie Robinson : Game-Changer -- Malcolm X : Spark-Light -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : Nonviolent Visionary -- Barack H. Obama, Jr. : Holding on to Hope -- Timeline. |
| Awards Note: | Coretta Scott King Author Award, 2013. |
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| Covington Branch | J 973.0496 Pink (Text) | 33126016967139 | JNonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | J 973.0496 Pink (Text) | 33126016967147 | JNonfiction | Available | - |
| Independence Branch | J 973.0496 Pink (Text) | 33126018564942 | JNonfiction | Available | - |
Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed books for middle grade readers, including the novels Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club pick, and With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America series. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner. Andrea's many picture books include Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, a New York Times best-seller and a Jane Addams Honor Book, which was illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney. She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.
Brian Pinkney (www.brianpinkney.net) has frequently collaborated with his wife, Andrea Davis Pinkney. Some of their other books include, Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, and Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, for which Brian was awarded a Caldecott Honor. Brian was also a Caldecott Honoree for The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci , and he won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for In the Time of the Drums by Kim L.Siegelson.