Hudson, Wade

Six young kids Robo, Glo', Stef', Nandi, Langston, and Tura ponder what they might want to be when they grow up. Real life African-American role models are presented and brief descriptions of occupations are also included.

This is an introduction to important Black achievers, written for young readers.

Follows five inventors: Elijah "the real" McCoy, machinery oiling equipment; Madame C.J. Walker, hair products for black women; Granville Woods, electrical signal system for trains; Garrett Morgan, gas masks and traffic signals; and Jan Matzeliger, shoe last machinery.

Photographs and text present the life stories of five explorers: Esteban Dorantes, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Matthew A. Henson, Mae C. Jemison, and James Pierce Beckwourth.

An illustrated collection of poetry by such African-American poets as Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, Eloise Greenfield,and Lucille Clifton.

Profiles five African American civil rights workers: Richard Allen, Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Medgar Wiley Evers.

Profiles more than forty African Americans who have made contributions to science, medicine, and inventing in the past two hundred and fifty years.

At a joyous family reunion, relatives sing, dance, eat lots of food, and pose for a family picture.