How They Got
Over
African Americans and the Call of the Sea
by Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist
$16.99 / our price: $15.00
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0060289910
2002 / Hardcover / Pages: 128
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
African Americans have been drawn to the sea for hundreds of years. In
this collection of biographies, Eloise Greenfield examines how that connection
to the sea has influenced generations of African Americans -- from a
shipbuilder-businessman during the American Revolution to the first woman and
African American to hold the highest-ranking position in the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps. The lives of the
extraordinary men and women included here create a stirring image of the
powerful tie between African Americans and the water that has both bound them
and set them free. Jan Spivey Gilchrist's artwork is as evocative as the
profiles of the people it illustrates.
