Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present Art/Women's Studies ISBN-13: 978-1879164147

ISBN-13: 978-1879164147

and the development of civil society

author of Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography

women in systems of prostitution

and has even seared the edges of an academy that once froze him out

Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present Art/Women's Studies ISBN-13: 978-1879164147The highly anticipated fourth installment of the Book of Black Heroes series, Political Leaders Past and Present, spotlights African American who have made valuable contributions in U. S. government leadership. Included are Hiram Revels, P. B. S. Pinchback and Robert Smalls, among the first African Americans to hold political offices, Oscar De Priest and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr,, who served during the Jim Crow period as well as Edward M. Brooke,