Description Featuring forty trailblazing black women in black history, Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates true stories of forty trailblazing black women in America. Illuminating text paired with irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as Freedom Fighter Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash. Among these biographies, readers will find heroes, role models, and everyday women who did extraordinary things – bold women whose actions and beliefs contributed to making the world better for the coming generations of black children! Whether they were putting pen to paper, soaring through the air or speaking up for the rights of thier men, the women profiled in these pages were all taking a stand against a world that didn’t always accept the black family and black excellence!
