Stories of African-American Achievements
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CONTENTS Juan Williams: Looking Back by Juan Williams 2 Black Media Timeline: Freedom’s Message 6 Richard Allen: Black Founding Father by Richard Newman 12 Marshall Taylor: Cycling Champion by Brian Heyman 16 Madam C.J. Walker: Business Savvy to Philanthropy by A’Lelia Bundles 20 Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Fighting and Writing for Justice by Lee D. Baker 24 Zora Neale Hurston: Literary Legend by Valerie Boyd 28 Dorothy Irene Height: Civil Rights Activist by Holly Cowan Shulman 32 Living With Purpose (excerpt) by Dorothy Irene Height 36 Eulogy for Dorothy Irene Height by President Barack Obama 41 Claudette Colvin: The First to Keep Her Seat by Phillip Hoose 43 John H. Johnson: Media Mogul by Clint C. Wilson II 47 Will Allen: Urban Farmer by Elizabeth Royte 51 Growing Power 55 Ben Carson: Gifted Neurosurgeon by Kenneth J. Cooper 59 Gifted Hands (excerpt) by Ben Carson 63
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