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Mahalia Jackson was gospel music's first superstar, a woman whose drive, talent, and charismatic personality transformed the music, carrying it from America's black churches to the concert halls of the world. She revolutionized gospel music by infusing it with catchy blues inflections. Off the stage, she became actively involved in politics and the civil rights movement. Even today, her records continue to sell in millions-a testimony to the greatness...
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This book renders coverage on the life and historic achievements of Phillis Wheatley, the first black poet of America. Kidnapped from her home in Africa and sold as a slave, she acquired freedom before the American Revolution and was acclaimed as a poet when still a teenager. This book captures her childhood, growing-up years, beginnings as a poet and various struggles of adulthood, taking the reader to the time of her lonely death at the age of 31....
6) Helen Keller
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Describes how a woman left blind and deaf from a childhood illness overcame her handicaps to become a noted writer and humanitarian.
9) Clara Barton
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Follows the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
10) Emma Lazarus
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A biography of the nineteenth-century American poet best known for the verses inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
11) Georgia O'Keeffe
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A biography of the noted American artist who found much of her artistic inspiration in nature, especially the desert landscape of the Southwest.
12) Gertrude Stein
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Traces the life of the American author whose unique writing style and encouragement of other authors had a strong influence on culture, particularly in Paris in the 1920s.
13) Isadora Duncan
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A biography of Isadora Duncan, a giant in the history of American dance.
14) Jane Addams
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Jane Addams helped immigrants by founding the first settlement house, Hull House, in Chicago. This is a thorough & well-organized book. It describes her efforts to challenge social conventions -- attending college during a time (the late 1800s) when few women had that opportunity. She later devoted her life to working to help the poor & change the attitudes & treatment of the less fortunate.
17) Mae West
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Traces the life of the stage and screen performer, from her Brooklyn childhood and vaudeville period to success in Hollywood and the final years.
19) Marian Anderson
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A biography of the opera and concert singer who, among other achievements, was the first black soloist to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Company in 1955.
20) Pearl Buck
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A biography of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner who devoted much of her life to the welfare of needy children.
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