Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

By Andrea Davis Pinkney

Book Overview

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a New York Times Notable Children's Book
HAND IN HAND presents the stories of ten Black men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. Each biography is an accessible, fully-drawn narrative offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations, and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the "freedom chain." Together the stories of these and their individual accomplishments blend to tell one story: a story of triumph. Features dynamic full color portraits and spot illustrations by two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient Brian Pinkney. Backmatter includes a civil rights timeline, sources, and further reading.

Profiled:
Benjamin Banneker
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
A. Philip Randolph
Thurgood Marshall
Jackie Robinson
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr
Barack H. Obama II

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1423142578
• ISBN13: 9781423142577
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7