Lester, Julius

Retells the final adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching.

A young girl who has not uttered a sound since birth is shunned by the people in her village, until they realize how special she is.

Six stories about ordinary people and their extraordinary lives based, on real events from African-American history.

Tells the story of fictional civil rights leader John Calvin Marshall's brief, turbulent, charismatic life in four alternating voices: that of his wife, Andrea; Lisa Adams, his aide and mistress; Bobby Card, a southern civil rights leader; and his own.

When people and animals try to climb ladders to Heaven to escape problems with snakes, God, His secretary Bruce, and the angel Shaniqua decide that Heaven needs to be much further away.

Three short stories adopted from slave narratives describe escape attempts and their consequences.

Presents the author's meditations on twenty paintings by artist Rod Brown, designed to encourage reflection on the hardships faced by African-American slaves until their emancipation.