A biography of the Cherokee Indian who invented a method for his people to write and read their own language

Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet (Alvin Josephy's Biography Series of American Indians)

Children's Books

Robert Cwiklik

Biographies

Silver Burdett Press

A biography of the civil rights activist who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which acted as a labor union for Pullman car porters, and crusaded for equal rights for blacks in the armed forces, military industries, and in labor unions.

A. Philip Randolph (Gateway Civil Rights)

Millbrook Press

Describes the life and accomplishments of the civil rights worker who took a controversial, aggressive stance in his struggle for black rights in the 1960s.

Stokely Carmichael (Pb) (Gateway Civil Rights)

Malcolm X was a leader of the Nation of Islam, a movement to unite black people throughout the world. He taught blacks to take pride in their race and to respect and help themselves.

Malcolm X (Pb)

The story of one of the great leaders of the Cherokee nation... as well as the fascinating and disturbing story of cultural transformation and subsequent oppressive injustice that ended in The Trail of Tears. Pb, illus.

Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet

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