The fierce 44 : black Americans who shook up the world / written by the staff of The Undefeated ; portraits by Robert Ball ; edited by Stephen Reiss ; preface by Kevin Merida ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Additional Titles: Fierce forty four and Black Americans who shook up the world
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
Copyright Date: ©2019
Physical Description: 94 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Reiss, Stephen, 1957-, Ball, Robert, 1973-, Merida, Kevin, Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Undefeated (Website)

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Contents

Robert Abbott -- Alvin Ailey -- Muhammad Ali -- Richard Allen -- Maya Angelou -- Ella Baker -- James Baldwin -- Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Simone Biles -- Shirley Chisholm -- Benjamin O. Davis Sr. -- Frederick Douglass -- Charles Drew -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Duke Ellington -- Aretha Franklin -- Jimi Hendrix -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Jesse Jackson -- Jay-Z -- Katherine Johnson -- Quincy Jones -- Michael Jordan -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Henrietta Lacks -- Malcolm X -- Thurgood Marshall -- Toni Morrison -- Barack Obama -- Jesse Owens -- Gordon Parks -- Sidney Poitier -- Richard Pryor -- Jackie Robinson -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Madam C. J. Walker -- Booker T. Washington -- Ida B. Wells -- Serena Williams -- August Wilson -- Oprah Winfrey -- Stevie Wonder.

Summary

"A dynamic and hip collective biography that presents 44 of America's greatest movers and shakers from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Barack Obama, written by ESPN's TheUndefeated.com and illustrated with dazzling portraits by Rob Ball."

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ISBN

9781328940629 (paper over board : alk. paper)
1328940624 (paper over board : alk. paper)

Reading Grade

Grades 4-6.

Interest Age

Ages 10-12.

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