This particular volume, a discarded copy formerly the property of the Glenwood Landing School Library, is an eighth printing. The book jacket summaries the volume as a "gallery of sixteen biographies of outstanding negro figures in our countries past and present." A pen and ink rendition of each of the famous negro Americans precedes the specific biography.

Condition is quite fine with the book retaining its original dust cover protected in a plastic sleeve; some pencil notations on the contents page, otherwise perfect! Very interesting reading for all ages!