Illustrated with many photographs. Sixteen biographies of
Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Henry Ossawa Tanner,
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jackie Robinson, Crispus Attucks and George Washington Carver.

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, short story writer,
and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary
art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance