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10) W.E.B. DuBois
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Du Bois believed that intellectual pursuits -- education, writing, research -- were the paths that would lead to improved conditions for African Americans. Read about his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance, a time that celebrated black talent & accomplishments. This is a great choice for students doing in-depth research. Appendix of the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, source notes, bibliography, & index. Part of the Impact Biographies series. Examines...
13) Carl Sandburg
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The life of the American poet, biography, and collector of folk songs whose biography of Lincoln took twenty years of research and writing.
14) Margaret Sanger
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A biography of the feminist who brought safe and legal birth control to the women of America.
15) Mohandas Gandhi
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Describes briefly the colonial India into which Gandhi was born, his upbringing and education, including his stay in South Africa, and the nonviolent revolution he led to free India from English rule.
18) John Lennon
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A biography of the rock musician emphasizing his contributions to and influence on the music and culture of the Sixties and Seventies.
20) Emily Dickinson
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Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
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