| Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography Contributor(s): Conyers, James L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765603306 ISBN-13: 9780765603302 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: These fifteen chapters comprise biographical sketches of notable but heretofore unknown (or lesser known) African Americans, among them General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (the first African American four-star general in the U.S. Air Force); William Levi Dawson (a composer); Vinnette Carroll (a director and playwright); Elizabeth Ross Haynes (an early political speaker and activist); Richard Allen (founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church); Besse Head (a South African-born writer); Maria Stewart (a nineteenth-century African American writer); and a number of others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
| Dewey: 920.009 |
| LCCN: 98005996 |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.98" W x 8.97" (0.73 lbs) 238 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or lesser known) African-Americans, among them General Daniel Chappie James Jr; William Levi Dawson (composer); Vinnette Carroll (director and playwright); and Elizabeth Ross Haynes (political speaker and activist). |