Separate from her peers, Ella longs for a normal social group and is excited when a new boy moves to town and befriends her because they are the only two black kids in class. However, in order to find the "normalcy" she seeks, Ella would have to give up her longtime friend, Z.
The Reverend Fickett, his wife, and four children live comfortably in a privileged and conservative small town in California. They adopt Edgar Allan, a black child. The impact on their community and family is described.
Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven-year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War.
Presents the true story of two men--one African-American, the other white--who lived in the same Ohio neighborhood, went to the same school, joined the Army Air Corps in 1941, and finally became close friends nearly sixty years later.
A biography of cycling champion Major Taylor who, at the turn of the twentieth century, became the first African-American athlete to break through the racial divide, winning three consecutive world championship titles for the United States.
Describes cases of lynchings in the American South, chronicles the fight to end lynching, discusses violence during the civil rights era, and notes cases in which perpetrators were prosecuted decades later.
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
A fictional story featuring historical figures, in which George, a slave boy in 1850s St. Louis, gains his freedom with his mother, future White House dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly, and decides to use his liberty to help others escape.
