educators

Examines the successful teaching strategies of educator and principal Marva Collins and offers advice on how to motivate children to reach their full potential.

Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and a white man, recounts his rise from slavery to become the most influential black leader of his time in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Brief biographies of six influential women in the field of education : Emma Hart Willard, Mary Lyon, Patty Smith Hill, Florence Sabin, Mary McLeod Bethune.

A biography of the nineteenth-century lawyer who dedicated himself to reforming education in the United States.

Chronicles the life of lexicographer Noah Webster and discusses his political contributions, his personal life, his famous dictionary, and other related topics.

The Black educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training programs.

A biography of Janusz Korczak, who went to his death with the Jewish orphans in his care during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II.

Includes selections from the history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave; Life of Josiah Henson; Running a thousand miles for freedom, or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery; The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman; Memories of childhood slavery days by Annie L. Burton.