Step by step presentation of African-American historical figures and how they lead us to our first black President. A unique depiction of each personality by a different award-winning illustrator.
Foreword copyright © 2009 Marian Wright Edelman
Text copyright © 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
Our Ancestors illustration copyright © 2009 by James Ransome
George Washington Carver illustration copyright © 2009 by Leo and Diane Dillon
Jesse Owens illustration copyright © 2009 by AG Ford
Hattie McDaniel illustration copyright © 2009 by R. Gregory Christie
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Ella Fritzgerald illustration copyright © 2009 by Pat Cummings
Jackie Robinson illustration copyright © 2009 by Charlotte Riley-Webb
Rosa Parks illustration copyright © 2009 by Cozbi A. Cabrera
Ruby Bridges illustration copyright © 2009 by Shadra Strickland
Martin Luther King Jr. illustration copyright © 2009 by Frank Morrison
Jacket and Thurgood Marshall illustration copyright © 2009 by Bryan Collier
Barack Obama illustration copyright © 2009 by Eric Velasquez
Our Children illustration copyright © 2009 by E.B. Lewis
Used with permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
