Publisher's Synopsis
These high-interest/low-readability biographies cover influential contemporary and historical figures. Each inspiring example of success and overcoming challenges includes background notes, vocabulary lists, answers, and a bibliography.
Biographies include:
Langston Hughes, poet
Jesse Owens, athlete
Benjamin Davis, Tuskegee airman
Fannie Lou Hamer, voter registration activist
Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader
Alex Haley, author
Muhammad Ali, boxer
Faith Ringgold, artist
Alice Walker, author
Gladys Knight, singer
Bernice Reagon, historian
Colin Powell, statesman/soldier
Ben Carson, physician
Morgan Freeman, actor
Geoffrey Canada, social activist
Ruth Simmons, university president
