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Works for children and young adults : biographies /
The twelfth volume of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes contains Hughes's collections of biographies for children and young adults - Famous American Negroes, Famous Negro Music Makers, and Famous Negro Heroes of America - gathered together for the first time. In these works, Hughes sought...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Collected works of Langston Hughes ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGROES (1954) : Phillis Wheatley (about 1753-1784): whose poetry George Washington praised
- Richard Allen (about 1760-1831) : founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) : a star who never came home
- Frederick Douglass (about 1817-1895) : fighter for freedom
- Harriet Tubman (about 1823-1913) : the Moses of her people
- Booker T. Washington (about 1858-1915) : founder of Tuskegee
- Daniel Hale Williams (1858-1931) : a great physician
- Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) : whose painting hangs in the Luxembourg
- George Washington Carver (about 1864-1943) : agricultural chemist
- Robert S. Abbott (1870-1940) : a crusading journalist
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) : the Robert Burns of Negro poetry
- W.C. Handy (1873-1958) : father of the blues
- Charles C. Spauding (1874-1952) : executive of the world's largest Negro business
- A. Philip Randolph (1889- ) : distinguished labor leader
- Ralph Bunche (1904- ) : Statesman and political scientist
- Marian Anderson (1902- ) : Famous concert singer
- Jackie Robinson (1919- ) : first Negro in big league baseball
- FAMOUS NEGRO MUSIC MAKERS (1955) : The Fisk Jubilee Singers
- James A. Bland : minstrel composer
- Bert Williams : artist of comedy song
- Bill Robinson : music with the feet
- Leadbelly : the essence of folk song
- Jelly Roll Morton : from ragtime to jazz
- Roland Hayes : famous concert artist
- William Grant Still : distinguished composer
- Bessie Smith : "The Empress of the Blues"
- Duke Ellington: composer and band leader
- Ethel Waters : singer of popular songs
- Louis Armstrong : king of the trumpet players
- Marian Anderson : Metropolitan opera star
- Bennie Benjamin : Broadway song writer
- Mahalia Jackson : singer of gospel songs
- Dean Dixon : symphony conductor
- Lena Horne : singing star of Hollywood
- Famous jazz musicians : Congo Square to Carnegie Hall
- FAMOUS NEGRO HEROES OF AMERICA (1958) : Estaban : discover of Arizona
- Crispus Attucks : martyr for American independence
- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable : founder of Chicago
- Paul Cuffe : seaman and colonizer
- Gabriel Prosser : freedom seeker
- James P. Beckwourth : frontiersman
- Frederick Douglass: abolitionist
- Harriet Tubman : liberator
- Robert Smalls : patriot
- Charles Young : West Pointer
- Matthew A. Henson : explorer
- Ida B. Wells : crusader
- Hugh N. Mulzac : master mariner
- Henry Johnson : a gallant soldier
- Dorie Miller : a hero of Pearl Harbor
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. : General of the Air Force.