Childhood of famous Americans

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J. C. Penney

A biography stressing the childhood of the boy whose knack for earning an honest dollar led to the establishment of a nation-wide chain of dry goods stores.

Vincent Lombardi, young football coach

A biography concentrating on the boyhood of the football coach whose name became synonymous with the Green Bay Packers of Wisconsin.

Harriet Tubman

Martin Luther King, Jr

A biography of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American Negroes win many battles for equal rights.

John F. Kennedy, young statesman

Concentrates on the childhood of the thirty-fifth President of the United States.

Crazy Horse

young war chief
2005
Presents a brief biography of Crazy Horse, the Oglala Sioux chief who fought for the rights of Native American people and who led the defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn in 1876.
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Dr. Seuss

young author and artist
2005
Biography details the boyhood and life of Theodore Geisel, educator and writer whose introduced rhyming repetition to the reading process.

Louis Armstrong; young music maker

1972
Biography of a trumpeter of humble origin who received international acclaim as a jazz entertainer.

Booker T. Washington

Concentrates on the boyhood of the man who started life as a slave and grew to become a great Negro educational leader and organizer of Tuskegee Institute.

Frederick Douglass, boy champion of human rights

A biography emphasizing the boyhood of the man who escaped from slavery to become a prominent orator and writer for the cause of abolition.

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