african americans

Presents the biography of twentieth-century dancer and choreographer, Alvin Ailey and profiles his early childhood in Texas and his contribution to African American history and culture through dance.

Presents a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and chronicles his life as the son of a Southern Baptist minister, his struggles with racial discrimination, and his fight for equality for African-Americans and all people of color.

A fictional chronicle of Dred Scott's life in slavery and his eleven-year fight for freedom in the nineteenth-century American courts, presented from Scott's point of view.

In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meaning of both racism and heroism when he befriends Luther Peale, a young man who once played for the old Negro Baseball League.

China Cup Cameron, a fourteen-year-old single mother with only her paralyzed Uncle Simon for support, takes on tremendous personal debt in hopes of a beautiful funeral after her daughter dies.

Chronicles the history of the civil rights movement in America from slavery to the present day and contains illustrated photographs, essays, and a timeline that documents such events as the Montgomery bus boycott, Freedom Rides, marches and sit-ins, and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act of the mid-1960s.

Chronicles the story of Dred and Harriet Scott's struggle to become free from slavery and discusses how their legendary court case contributed to the start of the Civil War.

Examines the history of slavery, discussing the slave trade, the establishment of the slavery system and its role in the economy of the American South, and abolition and emancipation. Includes a time line, glossary, and resources for further research.

Still living on the same Virginia plantation after the Civil War ends, thirteen-year-old Abby Joyner struggles to find the truth behind the disappearance of her mother.

Relates the adventures of York, a slave and "body servant" to William Clark, who journeyed west with the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806.