From the Book - Research Collections
Mary McLeod Bethune, Amazon of God.
Richard Wright, native son.
Charles S. Johnson, a scholar and a gentleman.
Walter White, little David.
George Washington Carver, sweet potato wizard.
Langston Hughes, Shakespeare in Harlem.
Marian Anderson, deep river of song.
W.E.B. Du Bois, elder statesman.
Mordecai W. Johnson, lord high chancellor.
William Grant Still, music maker.
A. Philip Randolph, Saint Philip of the Pullman porters.
Joe Louis, champion of the world.
Paul Robeson, voice of freedom.
