New York: Dodd, Mead, (c 1958.) dj. Hardcover - Sixteen biographies of some of the most important and outstanding African Americans in U.S. history,from the 16th century to the middle of the 20th, including the explorer Esteban; Crispus Attucks, the first man to fall in the Revolutionary War; Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas, anti-slavery activists; Matt Henson, the first man to stand on the North Pole; frontiersman James P. Beckwourth; Brigadier General Benjamin O Davis, Jr., contemporary air ace, and others. Illustrated with drawings by Gerald McCann. A title in the Famous Biographies for Young People series. 202 pp.