Great Black Heroes: Five Bold Freedom Fighters

Type

Book

Authors

Wade Hudson

ISBN 10

059048026X

ISBN 13

9780590480260

Tags

Horses, Biographies

Description

An easy-to-read collection of brief biographies of five Black freedom fighters: Richard Allen, Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer.This easy-to-read biography describes the early lives of Richard Allen, one of the founders of the Free African Society, the first formally organized African American group in the United States; Harriet Tubman, a major conductor of the Underground Railroad; Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP and a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement; Medgar Evers, the first field secretary for the NAACP; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a leading civil rights activist who gained national attention when she tried to vote in rural Mississippi. - from Amzon

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