A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River.
A short biography of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, chronicling her childhood and early work with the NAACP, as well as the events surrounding the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott which began because of Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
Presents a short biography of tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams and traces their lives from a poor community near Los Angeles to the professional tennis circuit and later to the 2000 Olympics where they won the gold medal in doubles tennis.
Presents a short biography on Jackie Robinson, the first African American major league baseball player in the United States, and profiles his life and struggles against racism and segregation as well as his involvement in the Civil Rights movement.
Profiles fourteen American men and women who fought against slavery in the nineteenth century, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elijah Lovejoy, and Lucretia Mott.
Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.
