In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...

Joe Louis was the first African-American to achieve hero worship that was previously reserved for whites only. When he started boxing in the 1930s, there were no African-Americans in positions of ...

Lester, Julius. John Henry. Illus. by Jerry Pinkney, New York: Dial, 1994. This account retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a ...

Henry McMaster signed a bill in August 2024 that will celebrate Small’s legacy as a Civil War hero on the State ... This is set to be the first African American monument outside South Carolina ...

Jesse Owens was an authentic American hero from then on," says Pulitzer-Prize ... He stayed in a boarding house with other African-American students about a quarter-mile from the campus.

it is imperative to honor not only the celebrated French general but also the unsung African American hero, James Armistead Lafayette, whose espionage efforts were pivotal in securing American ...

Pp. xxiv, 326. Illus., notes, biblio., index. $29.95. ISBN: 0806147032. New Light on a African-American Hero of the Alamo In this very well researched work, journalist and historian Jackson and ...

In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...