ISBN10: 160473390X, ISBN13: 9781604733907, [publisher: University Press Of Mississippi] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Mississippi Black History MakersRevised and Enlarged Editionby George Alexander Sewell and Margaret L. DwightThis edition of biographical sketches of notable blacks from Mississippi expands the edition published in 1977. A total of 166 figures are included, all of them persons who have, by the authors' comprehensive survey, 'made significant contributions in bringing about the uplift of the black race.' Black history makers are defined herein as those who have achieved national prominence in their fields, have made lasting contributions within the state as pioneers in fields where blacks were not previously allowed, or contributed in their own community or field, representing the lives of many blacks and serving as role models of what can be accomplished. Each of those included in the book either was born in Mississippi and spent a part of his or her childhood there or migrated to Mississippi and remained. Seventy-five history makers have been added to those in the first edition which included Hiram R. Revels, the first black U. S. Senator; Blanche K. Bruce, the first black U. S. Senator to serve a six-year term; political and civil rights leaders such as Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer; and contributors to arts and letters such as Leontyne Price, William Grant Still, Margaret ...
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