These books are located in the j 920 (biography) area of children’s non fiction. They are shelved by the last name of the person they are about.

 

Aaron, Henry (Hank)- baseball

 

Ali, Muhammad – boxing

 

Anderson, Marian – singer

 

Angelou, Maya- poet

 

Ashe, Arthur - tennis

 

Banneker, Benjamin- mathematician

 

Barkley, Charles – basketball

 

Bates, “Peg Leg” – tap dancer

 

Bethune, Mary McLeod  - educator

 

Bonds, Barry - baseball

 

Bridges, Ruby-  civil rights   

 

Bryant, Kobe - basketball

 

Burns, Anthony – escaped slave; famous trial

 

Carver, George Washington – scientist

 

Coleman, Bessie - pilot

 

Colvin, Claudette – civil rights

 

Cosby, Bill- entertainer

 

Craft, Ellen- slave

 

Douglass, Frederick.  - abolitionist    

 

Drew, Charles - surgeon           

 

Ellington , Duke – musician

 

Fitzgerald, Ella – singer

 

Gibson, Althea - tennis

 

Griffey, Ken Jr. – baseball

 

Hardaway, Anfernee - basketball

 

Henson, Matthew - explorer

 

Hill, Grant - basketball

 

Irvin, Michael - football

 

Iverson, Allen - basketball

 

Jackson, Bo - baseball and football.

 

Jackson, Jesse - civil rights leader

 

Jackson, Reggie - baseball

 

Jemison, Mae- astronaut

 

Johnson, Magic – basketball

 

Johnson, Mamie- baseball

 

Jordan, Michael- basketball

 

Joyner-Kersee , Jackie – track and field

 

Kemp, Shawn - basketball

 

King, Coretta Scott – widow of  MLK Jr.

 

King, Martin Luther  Jr- civil rights leader

 

Lewis, Carl – track and field

 

Louis, Joe - boxer

 

Malcolm X -  civil rights

 

Marshall, Thurgood – Supreme Court Justice

 

Mays, Willie – baseball

 

McCarty, Oseola-  philanthropist

 

McCoy, Elijah  - inventor

 

Obama, Barack - President

Obama, Michelle – First Lady

 

O'Neal, Shaquille  - basketball

 

Owens, Jesse – track and field

 

Paige, Satchel – baseball

 

Parks, Rosa – civil rights

 

Powell, Colin – Secretary of State

 

Puckett, Kirby – baseball

 

Rice, Jerry -  football

 

Robinson, David – basketball

 

Robinson, Jackie - baseball

 

Rudolph, Wilma – track and field

 

Scurry, Brianna- soccer

 

Smalls, Robert- fugitive slave

 

Smith, Emmitt – football

 

Thomas, Frank  - baseball

 

Truth, Sojourner – abolitionist

 

Tubman, Harriet – abolitionist

 

Turner, Nat – slave rebellion

 

Washington, Booker T. – educator

 

Wells, Ida B. – Civil rights worker

 

Wheatley, Phillis – poet

 

Whitmore, Tamika - basketball

 

Williams, Venus and Serena - tennis

 

Wonder, Stevie - musician

 

 

COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES:

 

These books are located in j 921 (biography) area of children’s non-fiction. They are shelved by the last name of the author.

 

 

Adler: Heroes for Civil Rights  2008 32p.

Ralph David Abernathy -- Medgar Evers -- Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and JamesChaney -- The Greensboro Four -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Lyndon Johnson -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The Little Rock Nine -- Thurgood Marshall -- James Meredith -- Rosa Parks -- Fred Shuttlesworth -- Earl Warren.

Altman: Extraordinary African Americans 2001 288p.

Information on over 100 notable African Americans, as well as African American historical events.

 

Harmon: American Civil Rights Leaders  2000 104p.

Profiles prominent men and women of the civil rights movement, including Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Julian Bond, and Jesse Jackson.

 

Hayden:  Nine African-American Inventors  1992  169p.

Chronicles the achievements of nine Afro-Americans        

responsible for inventions related to important parts of  

modern life such as refrigeration, electric lighting, and 

transportation.

 

McKissack:  African-American Scientists  1994  96p.

Examines the lives and achievements of African-American  

scientists from colonial days to the present, including  

Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, and several black astronauts.

 

Pinkney:  Let It Shine: Stories Of Black Women Freedom Fighters  2000 107p.

Tells the stories of Sojourner 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.

 

Sullivan: African American Inventors  1998  164p.

Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times.