A brief biography of the black surgeon who performed the first successful heart operation in 1893.

The heart man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Louise Meriwether

Children's Books

PRENTICE/HALL

Daddy Was a Number Runner

Told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just the despair and the violence, but the pride and the vitality as well.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

METHUEN

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pyramid Books

Publisher: The Feminist PressEdition: reprint

Daddy Was A Number Runner

THE FEMINIST PRESS

<p>Peter Mango - ship pilot, husband, slave - accomplished the impossible; he stole and delivered the gunboat Swanee to the Union Navy, bringing with a group of resolute runaways united in their flight by love, and by painful histories. Set in Charleston, South Carolina from 1861 to 1868, Louise Meriwether's rich and deeply moving novel recounts the story of Peter Mango, a slave whose daring Civil War escape from Charleston to the Union Navy brings him face-to-face with his freedom, and closer still to his own soul.</p>

Fragments of the Ark

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