And Not Afraid To Dare

作者:Tonya Bolden

页数:224

出版时间:2003-1

价格:35.00元

isbn号码:9780439471398

The African-American women in this book were not afraid to strive to be free, to be heard, to be given a chance at success. It was this gutsiness, this refusal to give up that led them to fulfill their dreams. Read the inspiring stories of writer Toni Morrison, former opera singer Leontyne Price, former astronaut Mae C. Jemison, Olympic gold-medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee, pioneer Mary Fields, escaped slave Ellen Craft , teacher Charlotte Forten Grimke, journalist Ida B. Wells, and educator Mary McLeod Behune.