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Harrison, Vashti, author.

Little legends : exceptional men in black history / Vashti Harrison ; with Kwesi Johnson.

First edition.

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

©2019

86 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Profiles thirty-five prominent men in African American history, including James Armistead Lafayette, Thurgood Marshall, Alvin Ailey, and Leland Melvin.

Includes bibliographical references (page 84).

Ages 8-12.

African American men -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

African American men.

African Americans -- Biography. -- Juvenile literature.

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Boys & Men.

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical.

Biographies.

Picture books.

Johnson, Kwesi, author.

Exceptional men in black history

Benjamin Banneker -- James Armistead Lafayette -- Frederick Douglass -- Bass Reeves -- Robert Smalls -- Charles Henry Turner -- Arturo Schomburg -- Garrett Morgan -- Marshall "Major" Taylor -- Harold Moody -- Oscar Micheaux -- Paul Robeson -- Aaron Douglas -- Louis Armstrong -- Langston Hughes -- Charles R. Drew -- John Robinson -- Thurgood Marshall -- Gordon Parks -- Jacob Lawrence -- Ousmane Sembène -- James Baldwin -- Harry Belefonte -- Alvin Ailey -- Bill Russell -- Eddie Mabo -- Paul Stephenson -- John Lewis -- Arthur Ashe -- André Leon Talley -- Prince -- Chuck D -- Dwayne McDuffie -- Leland Melvin -- Sir David Adjaye -- More little legends.

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