Black Stars biographies are written by leading African American children s book writers. JIM HASKINS has written more than 100 nonfiction books for young readers. A professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Haskins has won numerous awards, including the Washington Post Children s Book Guild Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award.

• Acknowledgments vIntroduction 1W. E. B. Du Bois 5W. C. Handy 13Philip A. Payton Jr. 19Jessie Redmon Fauset   23Bubie Blake and Noble Sissle  28Oscar Micheaux 34Gertrude “Ma” Rainey 39James Van Der Zee 43Marcus Garvey 48Francis Hall Johnson    54Zora Neale Hurston 59Augusta Savage 65Bessie Smith 70Paul Robeson 73Duke Ellington 80Thomas Andrew Dorsey 86Louis Armstrong 91Langston Hughes 95Dorothy West   102Chronology 107Notes 109Bibliography 112Picture Credits  115Author Credits 116Index 117

Black Stars biographies are written by leading African American children s book writers. JIM HASKINS has written more than 100 nonfiction books for young readers. A professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Haskins has won numerous awards, including the Washington Post Children s Book Guild Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award.

• Acknowledgments vIntroduction 1W. E. B. Du Bois 5W. C. Handy 13Philip A. Payton Jr. 19Jessie Redmon Fauset   23Bubie Blake and Noble Sissle  28Oscar Micheaux 34Gertrude “Ma” Rainey 39James Van Der Zee 43Marcus Garvey 48Francis Hall Johnson    54Zora Neale Hurston 59Augusta Savage 65Bessie Smith 70Paul Robeson 73Duke Ellington 80Thomas Andrew Dorsey 86Louis Armstrong 91Langston Hughes 95Dorothy West   102Chronology 107Notes 109Bibliography 112Picture Credits  115Author Credits 116Index 117

Black Stars biographies are written by leading African American children s book writers. JIM HASKINS has written more than 100 nonfiction books for young readers. A professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Haskins has won numerous awards, including the Washington Post Children s Book Guild Award, the Carter G. Woodson Award, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award.

• Acknowledgments vIntroduction 1W. E. B. Du Bois 5W. C. Handy 13Philip A. Payton Jr. 19Jessie Redmon Fauset   23Bubie Blake and Noble Sissle  28Oscar Micheaux 34Gertrude “Ma” Rainey 39James Van Der Zee 43Marcus Garvey 48Francis Hall Johnson    54Zora Neale Hurston 59Augusta Savage 65Bessie Smith 70Paul Robeson 73Duke Ellington 80Thomas Andrew Dorsey 86Louis Armstrong 91Langston Hughes 95Dorothy West   102Chronology 107Notes 109Bibliography 112Picture Credits  115Author Credits 116Index 117