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Strong Men Keep Coming: Book of African American Men by Tonya Bolden. SIGNED 1st

Strong Men Keep Coming: Book of African American Men by Tonya Bolden. SIGNED 1st

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Strong men keep coming : the book of African American men, SIGNED by Tonya Bolden.

NY: WILEY, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing.

Signed by Author on front blank page.


Summary:



This eclectic and creative
mix of biographical profiles traces the epic experience of black men in
America from the Jamestown landing to the dawn of the 21st century.
These profiles serve an audience of readers hungry for information about important, but often forgotten, figures in history.

Partial table of contents: FOREFATHERS. Broteer:
"Colonial John Henry." Tom Molineaux: Boxer. Abraham Camp:
Would-be Emigrationist. Ira Aldridge: Actor. David Walker:
Abolitionist. Josiah Henson: The Uncle Tom Who Ran to Freedom.
James McCune Smith: Physician. Jim Beckwourth: Mountain Man. James
Boon: Contractor. George Moses Horton: Poet. Robert Smalls: Union
Navy Hero. George Washington: Town Founder. Frederick Douglass:
Activist. SONS OF THE DAWN. W. E. B. Du Bois: Activist-Scholar.
Booker T. Washington: Founder of Tuskegee Institute. Roland Hayes:
Concert Singer. Carl Murphy: Newspaper Publisher. Jackson Jordan,
Jr.: A "Drylongso" Fellow. Chester Himes: Writer. Vernon Johns:
Spiritual and Moral Leader. Fred Hampton: Black Panther. Arthur
Ashe: Tennis Player. Index. Permissions.

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