Interesting People

<p> Cameo biographies along with Lee's famous pen-and-ink portraits make this book an inviting and inspiring browser for students as well as a useful reference to teachers writers librarians black community leaders and the general reader.</p><p> Both major achievements and little-known interesting facts are given on over 200 Americans. The coverage is broad: past and present leaders performers musicians and sports greats scientists writers and military men and women.</p><p> The material is drawn from a newspaper feature which the author created in 1945. The feature continued until 1986 and has appeared in most of the major black newspapers in the United States.</p>