African-American biographies

Author

Old, Wendie C Jeffrey, Laura S Wright, David K Litwin, Laura Baskes Schraff, Anne E Caper, William Broadwater, Andrea Plantz, Connie Kramer, Barbara Naden, Corinne J

1) Duke Ellington: giant of Jazz

Author

Old, Wendie C.

2) Barbara Jordan: congresswoman, lawyer, educator

Author

Jeffrey, Laura S.

3) Louis Armstrong: king of jazz

Author

Old, Wendie C.

4) Paul Robeson: actor, singer, political activist

Author

Wright, David K.

5) Benjamin Banneker: astronomer and mathematician

Author

Litwin, Laura Baskes

Series

African-American biographies

Publisher

Enslow Publishers

Pub. Date

[1999]

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the eighteenth-century African-American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.