Black Firsts

Name/Title

Black Firsts

Entry/Object ID

L9999.999.1892

Description

Black Firsts is a collection of 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events, originally published in 1994 and now updated "with more than 1,000 new stories of a people overcoming adversity to emerge triumphant. With more than 100 illustrations, Black Firsts includes modern-day pioneers like Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, Suzan-Lori Parks (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama), and Vonetta Flowers, the first African American to be awarded the Winter Olympic gold medal." 787/Hardbound/Photographs/Tables.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Civil rights, Education, Religion, Sports

Search Terms

Business, Black Celebrities, Black Inventors, Black History

Book Details

Author

Smith, Jessie Carney

Place Published

City

Detroit

State/Province

Michigan

Date Published

2003

Call No.

BlackHist SM

ISBN

1-57859-142-2

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent