Childhood of famous Americans

A biography emphasizing the boyhood of the man who escaped from slavery to become a prominent orator and writer for the cause of abolition.

Recounts the boyhood of America's famous poet, Robert Frost, who knew from experience how to build fences, pick apples, and swing birches long before he wrote about them.

Biography of Lincoln's precocious son, Robert, and his childhood escapades in Illinois and the White House.

A biography of the woman who devoted her life to the abolition movement and the fight for equal rights for blacks and women.

The early life of Crispus Attucks, who was born a slave and died at the hands of the British in the Boston Massacre of 1770.

A biography of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American Negroes win many battles for equal rights.