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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the lesser-known lives and contributions of early African-American men and women, in a volume that features such complementary activities as recipes for colonial foods and advice for petitioning the government.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its core, about the four most powerful individuals of modern...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Presents a portrait of five extraordinary figures--Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson--to illuminate how great leaders are made in times of adversity and the diverse skills they summon in order to prevail.
Series
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Through the vivid personal stories of students, PETERSBURG RISING celebrates how one community rallied behind an inspiring leader to support its schools, breaking generational cycles of failure and underperformance to achieve success through re-accreditation. Petersburg, VA was once home to the largest free Black community in America, and fell into financial ruin a century later, after a major corporation pulled up stakes. For more than a decade following,...
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