Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Audio CD – Unabridged, December 5, 2017
Price
$14.80
Publisher
Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio
Publication Date
Unabridged AUDIO edition (December 5, 2017
ISBN-13
978-1549114366
Dimensions
5.8 x 0.6 x 5.6 inches
Weight
4.8 ounces
Description
About the Author Vashti Harrison earned her MFA in Film/Video from CalArts and BA from the University of Virginia. Her experimental films and documentaries have shown around the world at film festivals. After a brief stint in television as a production coordinator, she is now a freelance graphic designer and a picture-book illustrator. She lives in Brooklyn.
Features & Highlights
- This book introduces listeners of all ages to forty women who changed the world.
- Featuring forty trailblazing black women in American history,
- Little Leaders
- educates and inspires as it relates true stories of breaking boundaries and achieving beyond expectations. Illuminating text brings to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history, such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash.
- Among these biographies, readers will find heroes, role models, and everyday women who did extraordinary things bold women whose actions and beliefs contributed to making the world better for generations of girls and women to come. Whether they were putting pen to paper, soaring through the air, or speaking up for the rights of others, the women profiled in these pages were all taking a stand against a world that didn t always accept them.
- The leaders in this book may be little, but they all did something big and amazing, inspiring generations to come.
