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TONYA BOLDEN is the acclaimed author/editor of ten books, including the bestselling 33 Things Every Girl Should Know, The Book of African American Women, Rites of Passage: Stories About Growing Up by Black Writers from Around the World, and And Not Afraid to Dare.

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.

"Bolden has assembled a most rewarding cast and done a splendid job of telling their stories."--Herb Boyd, coeditor, Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America