intellectuals

A biography of the African-American leader who started a "Back-to-Africa" movement in the United States, believing blacks would never receive justice in countries with a white majority.

Describes the life of nineteenth-century American writer, philosopher, and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau.

Profiles the life and works of Marcus Garvey, the controversial leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association during the early twentieth century, and his attempts to organize the Pan-African movement, designed to create a separate nation in Africa.

Set in the distant future, the story of Joseph Knecht is told through the eyes of an adoring biographer who cannot fully comprehend the genius of his hero.

Profiles Marcus Garvey, a self-educated black man who worked to end world-wide discrimination against Africans, to help black Africans regain control of their countries, and to promote black pride, unity, and power.

Provides an overview of the lives of Lorenzo de Medici and his subjects in late fourteenth-century Florence, a Renaissance-era city-state, and includes excerpts from poems, laws, and sermons of the time.

Chronicles the life of W. E. B. Du Bois, describing his accomplishments as an author, scholar, and civil rights leader, along with his relationships with Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others. Includes a time line.