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050 00 $aE185$b.B574 2003
082 00 $a909/.0496$221
245 00 $aBlack firsts :$b4,000 ground-breaking and pioneering historical events /$cJessie Carney Smith.
250 $a2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
260 $aDetroit :$bVisible Ink,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axv, 787 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 745-756) and index.
505 00 $tArts & Entertainment -- $tBusiness -- $tCivil Rights & Protest -- $tEducation -- $tGovernment: County & State -- $tGovernment: Federal -- $tGovernment: International -- $tGovernment: Local -- $tJournalism -- $tMilitary -- $tMiscellaneous -- $tOrganizations -- $tReligion -- $tScience & Medicine -- $tSports -- $tWriters.
520 1 $a"Black Firsts, a record of African American achievement, testified to a rich but often overlooked part of our history.
520 8 $aJessie Carney Smith, William and Camille Cosby Professor of the Humanities at Fisk University, greatly expands the new edition with more than 1,000 new stories of a people overcoming adversity to emerge triumphant, including the recent successes of modern-day pioneers like Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, Suzan-Lori Parks (winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama), and Vonetta Flowers, the first African American to be awarded the Winter Olympic gold medal. Dr.
520 8 $aSmith has revised and extended existing entries, capturing more of the remarkable episodes of discipline, will, transcendence, and belated recognition."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xHistory$vMiscellanea.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114040
650 0 $aBlack people$xHistory$vMiscellanea.
650 0 $aWorld records$zUnited States$vMiscellanea.
700 1 $aSmith, Jessie Carney,$d1930-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82112739
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