Own Voices: Black Creators Biographies

Art, Music, Dance The Legendary Miss Lena HORNE. & Literature Little Melba and Her Big Trombone. (LISTON)

Alvin AILEY. Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole LOWE. Marian ANDERSON: Amazing Opera Singer. Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Trombone Shorty and 5 o'clock Band. Florence MILLS. (ANDREWS) : How the Photographer Rise: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Captured Black and White America. Maya ANGELOU. Leontyne PRICE: Voice of a Century. Struttin' with Some Barbecue: Lil Hardin ARMSTRONG Becomes the First Lady of Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul ROBESON Jazz. Story. Science & Technology Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Sonny's Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny ARMSTRONG. ROLLINS Finds His Groove.

Ticktock BANNEKER's Clock. Between the Lines: How Ernie BARNES Went In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta SAVAGE. from the Football Field to the Art Gallery. Secret Garden of George Washington CARVER. My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare By and By: Charles TINDLEY, the Father of Gospel Music. BEARDEN's Childhood Journey. No Small Potatoes: Junius G. GROVES and His Kingdom in Kansas. Gwendolyn BROOKS: "Poetry is Life It Jes' Happened: When Bill TRAYLOR Started to Draw. Distilled." I, Matthew HENSON: Polar Explorer. Take a Picture of Me, James VAN DER ZEE! Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography World War II to Peace. (BRYAN) of NASA Mathematician Katherine JOHNSON. Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Sports COLLINS. Whoosh! Lonnie JOI-INSON's Super- Soaking Stream of Inventions. Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John COLTRANE. Champion: The Story of . Sewing Stories: Harriet POWERS' Journey from Slave to Artist. Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Touch the Sky: Alice COACI-IMAN, Olympic Reader's Edition). (COPELAND) High Jumper. Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien THOMAS. Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles DA Let 'er Buck: George FLETCHER, the VIS Found His Sound. People's Champion. Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil deGrasse TYSON. Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Ballerina. Althea GIBSON: The Story of Tennis' Fleet- (DEPRINCE) of Foot Girl. Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry TURNER. Duke ELLINGTON: The Piano Prince and His Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack JOHNSON .. Orchestra. Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah A Nation's /-lope: The Story of Boxing Breedlove WALKER. Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella FITZGERALD. Legend Joe LOUIS.

A Voice Named Aretha. (FRANKLIN) She Loved Baseball: The Effa MANLEY Story. Voice of Freedom: , The Spirit of the . Follow Chester: A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History. (PIERCE) Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi HENDRIX. Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie ROBINSON. Mister and Lady Day: Billie HOLIDA Y and the Dog Who Loved Her. Major TAYLOR, Champion Cyclist.

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Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to DOUGLASS, A Monumental American Man. . (BEALS)

Mumbet's Declaration of Freedom. This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in (FREEMAN) the Fight for School Equality. (BOYCE)

Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann GRANDERSON Through My Eyes. (BRIDGES) and Her Secret School. : Twice Towards Justice. Never Caught, the Story of Ona JUDGE: George and Martha Washington's Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia GILMORE Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away. Sustained the .

Step Right Up: I-low Doc and Jim KEY The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Taught the World About Kindness. Faye HENDRICKS, a Young Civil Rights Activist. A Spy Called James: The True Story of James LAFAYETTE, Revolutionary War Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song. Double Agent. (KING) Hammering for Freedom: William LEWIS Coretta Scott. (KING) Story. in the Lead: A Story of the Civil The Amazing Age of John Roy LYNCH. Rights Movement. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Someday is Now: Clara LUPER and the 1958 Girl. (LYONS) Sit-ins. Searching for Sarah RECTOR: The Richest The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Ground- Black Girl in America. breaking Journalist Ethel L. PAYNE. Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Yes, We Can: A Biography of Barack OBAMA. of Bass REEVES, Deputy U.S. Marshall. Michelle. (OBAMA) Sojourner TRUTH's Step-Stomp Stride. : My Story. Moses: When Harriet TUBMAN Led Her Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963. People to Freedom. (ROBINSON) Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. SCHOMBURG: The Man Who Built a Library. WASHINGTON. Howard THURMAN's Great Hope. Phillis's Big Test. (WHEATLEY) The Oldest Student: How Mary WALKER Carter Reads the Newspaper. (WOODSON) Learned to Read. Ida B. WELLS: Let the Truth be Told.

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