By Jim Haskins,Clinton Cox,Brenda Wilkinson
realize why youth all around the state are interpreting the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. here's what you need to find out about the lives of significant black women and men in the course of the Colonial and progressive battle era:
richard allen
crispus attucks
benjamin banneker
daniel coker
paul cuffe
austin dabney
james durham
estevanico
catherine ferguson
james forten
lemuel haynes
anthony johnson
"free frank" mcworter
marie therese metoyer
jean baptiste aspect du sable
deborah sampson
peter salem
pierre toussaint
"The books within the Black Stars sequence are the kinds of books that may have rather captivated me as a kid."
-Earl G. Graves, Black company magazine
"Inspiring tales that show what can take place whilst ingenuity and tenacity are paired with braveness and difficult work."
-Black Books Galore! consultant to nice African American kid's Books
"Haskins has selected his topics good . . . catching a feeling of the big hindrances that they had to beat. . . . a few names are universal, yet so much are little-known whom Haskins elevates to their rightful position in history."
-Booklist
"The large assurance makes this an strange resource-a jumping-off element for deeper studies."
-Horn Book
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