The fierce 44 Black Americans who shook up the world

Sound recording - 2019

"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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Subjects
Genres
Biographies
Illustrated works
Informational works
Children's audiobook
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2019]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Findaway World, LLC
Corporate Author
Findaway World, LLC (-)
Other Authors
Robert Ball, 1973- (illustrator), Kevin Merida (writer of preface), Henry Louis Gates (writer of foreword), JD Jackson (narrator)
Physical Description
1 Wonderbook (94 pages) : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm
Audience
Grades 4-6.
Ages 10-12.
ISBN
9781662255557
  • 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.