America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism / Boys & Men / Comics & Graphic Novels - Humorous " —School Library Journal (starred

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” In Black Women Will Save the World

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”—IBRAM X

Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement

America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism / Boys & Men / Comics & Graphic Novels - Humorous " —School Library Journal (starredHistory books are replete with heroic stories of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, but what of Allen, Russwurm, and Hawley? Americas Black Founders celebrates the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nations early African American leaders. Many know that the Revolutionary Wars first martyr, Crispus Attucks, a dockworker of African descent, was killed at the Boston Massacre. But far fewer know that the final conflict of the war,