A selection of African American Biographies in the Children's
Department
at the Jackson-Madison County Library
Phyllis Wheatley - Poet
Benjamin Banneker - Inventor, Astronomer
Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist
Harriet Ross Tubman - Abolitionist
James Beckwourth - Frontiersman
Nat Love - Cowboy
Daniel Hale Williams - Surgeon, Educator
Carter G. Woodson - Historian
Duke Ellington - Musician
Zora Neale Hurston - Writer, Anthropologist
Ralph Bunche - Diplomat
Thurgood Marshall - Supreme Court Justice
Mae C. Jemison - Astronaut
Colin Powell - Secretary of State
Ben Carson - Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Marcus Garvey - Black Nationalist
Matthew Henson - Explorer
George Washington Carver - Scientist
Mary McLeod Bethune - Educator, Civil rights activist, Musician
Louis Armstrong - Jazz Musician
Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist
Scott Joplin - Composer, Pianist