Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Copyright Date: 2021

Edition Date: 2021 Release Date: 09/09/21

Pages: xix, 274 pages

ISBN: 1-440-87248-1

ISBN 13: 978-1-440-87248-8

Dewey: 921

LCCN: 2021023106

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Subject Heading:
Washington, Booker T.,. 1856-1915.
Washington, Booker T.,. 1856-1915. Influence.
Tuskegee Institute. Biography.
African American intellectuals. Biography.
African American educators. Biography.
African American leadership. History.
African Americans. Politics and government.
African American civil rights workers. Biography.
African Americans. Relations with Africans.
African Americans. Social conditions. To 1964.
African Americans. Intellectual life.

Language: English

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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading Level: 7.0

Interest Level: 7-12

This biography series explores the lives of the most iconic figures in African American history, with material that supports the Common Core Standards while highlighting the subject's significance in our contemporary world. Each volume includes a narrative of the life of each subject, a chapter on the subject's larger cultural and historical significance, a chronology, a comprehensive bibliography, and sidebars that offer pertinent cultural connections to the worlds of social, political, intellectual, and popular culture. An appendix of primary document excerpts rounds out each volume. Readers of the Black History Lives series will gain a greater understanding of the outside events and influences that shaped each subject's world, from familial relationships to political and cultural developments. Book jacket.