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Tommy Nuñez
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Sue Boulais,Barbara Marvis |
Presents a biography of the NBA's only Hispanic referee. |
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Diana Ross
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John Wyeth, Jr |
Describes a benefit concert in Central Park starring this Afro-American entertainer and then relates her career as a singer. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr
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Heather Lehr Wagner,Robert E. Jakoubek |
Examines the life of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights. |
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Marie Curie, brave scientist
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Keith Brandt,Karen Milone,Brandt, Keith |
A brief biography focusing on the youth of the scientist who twice received the Nobel Prize for her work with radium. |
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Thurgood Marshall
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Lisa Aldred,Thurgood Marshall |
Examines the life of the first black man to be appointed an associate justice of the highest court in the country. |
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Two tickets to freedom
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Florence B. Freedman,Florence B. Freeman |
Traces the search for freedom by a black man and wife who traveled to Boston and eventually to England after their escape from slavery in Georgia. |
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Cool women
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Naomi Wax,Dawn Chipman,Pam Nelson,Mari Florence |
Brief biographies of selected notable women, a few of them fictitious, from different countries and periods of history. |
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