Bolden, Tonya

Essie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C.

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

"The life of Junius G. Groves, a sharecropper in Kansas who grew a modest potato farm into a potato kingdom"--Provided by publisher.

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

Frederick Douglass (1818 1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass s story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon.

Presents a collective biography of sixteen black men and women who have left their mark on history, from the eighteenth century throughout the twentieth, including James Forten, a powder boy and prisoner of war in the American Revolution who became captain of his own ship and an abolitionist; Richard Potter, who became a great performing ventriloquist, magician, and hypnotist; and Katherine Johnson, a mathematician and physicist who helped make the calculations to launch successful Apollo missions.

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

Relates the story of the creation of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, covering one hundred years of hoping, planning, constructing the building, and assembling its collections.

Explores the lives and creations of a select number of notable African-American men and women who have contributed to the American art scene.

A biography of agriculturist George Washington Carver. Describes his early love of nature and his struggle to obtain an education. Discusses how he was recruited by Booker T. Washington to teach at Tuskegee Institute where he conducted agricultural research.