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From an award-winning graphic designer comes this gorgeous collection that celebrates African Americans and their contributions - many little known - to politics, science, literature, music, and other fields, complemented by stunning illustrations.Illustrated Black History is a comprehensive chronicle that spans many decades and fields, from activism, business, and medicine to technology, food, and entertainment. Each entry includes a stunning line drawing rendition of these extraordinary black men and women, and most notably the "hidden figures" who have contributed invaluably to American culture, along with an insightful essay summarizing each of their life stories.In addition to towering figures, including Nina Simone, Frederick Douglass, Ava Duvernay, Martin Luther King, Jr, Ben Carson, Nat King Cole, Hattie McDaniel, Colin Kaepernick, James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, bell hooks, and Audre Lorde, Illustrated Black History honors heroes such as:Documentarian Madeline Anderson, who produced I Am Somebody, a film about the 1969 strike of mostly women hospital workersVirginia Allen, of the Black Angels, a group of 300 nurses who risked their lives to care for patients with tuberculosisJames and Eloyce Gist, whose traveling ministry crisscrossed America in the early 1900s Renaissance man, Paul RobesonDr.