Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present
- ISBN-10
- 1933491213
- ISBN-13
- 9781933491219
- Pages
- 72
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-02-15
- Author
- Gil L. Robertson
Description
The 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 governmental leadership as Congressmen, mayors, and as state and local representatives. Those included are Hiram Revels, P.B.S. Pinchback and Robert Smalls, among the first African Americans to hold political offices (1865-1880), Oscar De Priest and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr,, who served during the Jim Crow period (1808- 1960s) as well as Edward M. Brooke, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, John Lewis, John Conyers, Carl Stokes , and others who emerged during the 1960s on the heels of major civil rights legislation that gave millions of African American the right to vote. New political leaders are also featured, including Bakari Sellers, Kamala Harris, and Mia Love. Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present contains nearly four dozen biographies of history-making political leaders that covers 150 years of African-American and American history
