Full name: Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction, Children Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780152010058 9780547906041 015201005X 0547906048

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The lives these women led are part of an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression; about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights; and about speaking out for what you believe in--even when it feels like no one is listening. Andrea Davis Pinkney's moving text and Stephen Alcorn's glorious portraits celebrate the lives of ten bold women who lit the path to freedom for generations. Includes biographies of Sojournor Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B.Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm. Similar books: Kids at Work by Russell Freedman Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson The Great and Only Barnum by Candace Fleming Lives of Extraordinary Women by Kathleen Krull And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz Lives of the Writers by Kathleen Krull The True Story of Pocahontas by Lucille Recht Penner Around the World In a Hundred Years by Jean Fritz I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks If A Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg The Case for Loving by Selina Alko Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling