Green, Richard L

Presents single-page biographies of twenty-two black abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Prince Hall, and Nat Turner.

Presents biographical sketches of over twenty key figures in the civil rights movement, including W.E.B. DuBois, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Josephine Ruffin.

Profiles the accomplishments of twenty-four American Black women over the past three centuries.

Presents biographical sketches of more than twenty African Americans who have served in either elected or appointed positions in the national government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Presents single-page biographies of twenty-four African rulers, from Menes, who lived 3000 years before Christ to Haile Selassie, a twentieth-century emperor.

Presents biographies of twenty-four black men and women who made notable contributions in the arts, including Marion Anderson, James Baldwin, Alexander Dumas, Lorraine Hansberry, Paul Robeson, and Bert Williams.