One More River to Cross: The Story of Twelve Black Americans by James Haskins

One More River to Cross: The Story of Twelve Black Americans Reviews

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  B. P. Rinehart

  This book is a very neat and well put together biography of twelve different famous African-Americans. This book is a good introduction to some of these greats featuring some of the more commonly known names like
  Malcolm X, Matthew Henson, and Madame C.J. Walker as well as lesser known names like Ambassador Ralph Bunche, Romare Bearden, Crispus Attucks-the first man to die in the American Revolution, and Astronaut Ron McNair one of NASA's first Black Astronaut's who perished in the Challenger explosion.
  
  I would recommend this with any one wanting an introduction to some of the famous African-Americans all time.
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  Jayson

  As I began to read One More River To Cross by Jim Haskins, it seemed a little daunting and tough to comprehend. This is because of all the people incorporated inside the book. I assumed the book would be about a single person's perspective of life; however, I was incorrect.
  
  One More River To Cross is about twelve black Americans who helped strive to make the American life better. Each chapter informs people about the life story of one of them. Madam C.J. Walker was the first woman to start her own business and make one million dollars. Dr. Charles Drew created a way to store blood plasma.
  
  The plot was interesting and having pictures of each person helped to visualize them better when reading each chapter. However, the specific thing that made this book so tough to understand is the dates. There are so many dates and people to remember, causing them to get mingled around inside of the brain. For these reasons, I wouldn’t recommend reading this book or using it for a school project.
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  Alicia Cunningham

  Don’t think I can give this a fair rating, because I am not in the target audience. I felt the writing too juvenile (my fault for not realizing) and kind of just choppy facts - “like reading Wikipedia bios” as my friend described it. Good content though and I did enjoy learning all these peoples stories.
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  Liam Binfield

  It’s good
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  emily

  3.75
  
  before reading this book, i only recognized one of the
  people on the cover, but now i know who all of them are and i’m glad i read it. this book doesn’t go super in depth into all of these people but it’s a good introduction and i learned a lot despite it being a pretty small book. i don’t usually read nonfiction so this took me a while to get through, but i think the writing made it a lot easier to do so. it was simple and straightforward.
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  Maya

  Just realized I incidentally picked this book during Black History Month, but every day is a great day to learn more about influential African American figures in our culture and history. While this book didn't go into as much detail as it should have, it is a book marketed toward young adults. I read it because it was on our bookshelf, I presume it's my boyfriend's, and I enjoyed it as a quick read. I also learned much more than I expected (White Americans refused life saving blood transfusions from African Americans?? The African American man in the first party to reach the North Pole had to struggle to be recognized for this achievement as the white men in his party were??)
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  Brittany

  this book is on famous africain americans my friend and i had to do a report on the one in the top right corner