Bolden, Tonya

Collects fifteen speeches made by notable American icons including Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, Lou Gehrig, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Provides historical context, illustrations, and critical insight for each speech. Includes an author's note, an illustrator's note, a timeline, and sources for further learning.

Essie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C.

"Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd"--Provided by publisher.

Award-winning author Tonya Bolden explores the black women who have changed the world of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in America. Including groundbreaking computer scientists, doctors, inventors, physicists, pharmacists, mathematicians, aviators, and many more, this book celebrates over 50 women who have shattered the glass ceiling, defied racial discrimination, and pioneered in their fields.

Profiles the history of the Emancipation Proclamation, including excerpts from original sources, and facts that challenge some popular beliefs.

Presents a picture book biography of Junius G. Groves, who as a young man left his impoverished life on a plantation in Kentucky and headed west to Kansas, where he planted and farmed potatoes and made a greatly successful business out of it.

Chronicles the life of Frederick Douglass, discussing his years as a slave, escape to freedom, acclaim as a famous orator, journalist, and presidential advisor, work as an abolitionist, and other related topics.

This biography of famed abolitionist, statesman, suffragist, writer, speaker, and newspaperman Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) aims to focus on the man rather than the historical icon.

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.