Walter, Mildred Pitts

Chris really wanted a bicycle for his birthday, but his father was out of work and money was in short supply; however, Chris learns some valuable lessons as they prepare for the Kwanzaa celebration.

With the help of Good Snake, a young African boy gets his dearest wish.

After a misunderstanding with a white teacher, African American honor student Emma is transferred from the integrated high school where she has excelled to a segregated school where she finds a different kind of challenge.

A fictional recreation of the 1957 integration of Little Rock's Central High School, focusing on the experiences of two girl students, one white, the other black.

Tired of the "women's work" he feels he must always do, ten-year-old Justin visits his cowboy grandfather, where he learns that cooking is men's work too.

A young black child, while playing by the pond, meets a one-legged man who brings music to the community.

Jason wants to help, but isn't sure that his mother needs him at all after she brings home a new baby from the hospital.

Upset because his birthday falls on Christmas and will therefore be eclipsed as usual, and worried that there is less money because his father is out of work, eleven-year-old Chris takes solace in the carvings he is preparing for Kwanzaa, the African-American celebration of their cultural heritage.

Describes the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in Mississippi, from the time of slavery to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.