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Open the Unusual Door: True Life Stories of Challenge, Adventure, and Success by Black Americans

Edited and with an introduction by Barbara Summers

An inspiring collection of autobiographical essays from a diverse group of successful African Americans that teaches young adults how to recognize the right door, open it, and find the strength to walk through it.

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Derek Jeter * Queen Latifah * Susan Fales-Hill * Colin Powell * Sister Souljah
bell hooks * Dexter Scott King * Antwone Fisher * Lynne Duke
Whoopi Goldberg * Neil de Grasse Tyson * E. Lynn Harris
Michael Cottman * Peter Westbrook * Russell Simmons
Chamique Holdsclaw