African Americans Who Were First

By Constance Claytor and Joan Potter

Book Overview

The history of America is not complete without including the contributions and achievements of African Americans. What does it take to be the best, to be the very first? Many African Americans dared... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525652469
• ISBN13: 9780525652465
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Let's Re-Write the story of African Americans in His - Story !!

This book was very informative ... I'll share it with my Granddaughters ... so they'll have a more "UN-BIASED " AWARENESS that African Americans have contributed, initiated, invented, developed and discovered - A LOT MORE CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICA than they were given little more than "Jim Crow " credit for , if that. I didn't have these kind of documented resources growing up... usually stories that credited so many things that were invented or discovered by Blacks - but TV had white actors playing every part from Black cowboys to Native Americans - even a White Moses and a White Christ -- when that region of the world was nothing but PEOPLE OF COLOR as well as Biblical references such as ' Moses married an Ethiopian Woman '.

A great African American short history

This book is written for ages 9-14 and I believe the information is written at that level of understanding. It is written very clear and concise. The story or life of the 29 members in this book is different from most of the African Americans who were brought to the American shore starting 1619. It is noted that Phyllis Wheatley was brought to Boston, Massachusetts around 1761. She became a poetess after learning to read and write. She was quite lucky to have been allowed to learn to read and write as most of the other slaves were not allowed that priviledge. She is noted to have had published her first book of poems in 1773 when she was about 22 years old. The book goes on from there enumerating the discoveries and firsts that 28 other African Americans participated in up to the 21st century.I recommend that every child as well as adult read this informative book of American firsts