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Book Review: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
The title of this book is hand in hand :ten black men who changed america. The authors are Andrea davis pinkney and brian pinkney. The ten main character are benjamin banneker,frederick douglass,booker t washington,W.E.B. dubois,a philip randolph,thurgood marshall,jackie robinson,malcolm X,martin luther king jr. and barack hussein obama II. this book should be used in school because it teaches you how you shouldn't give up because you will reach your goal. The book is mostly about black people starting as a poor person and not very famous to achieving something or doing something no one else had ever done before. This book is very educational because it tells you exactly how the person came to be from a neglected person to a person who everybody

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