An Empak "Black history" publication series

Presents single-page biographies of twenty-two black abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, Prince Hall, and Nat Turner.

Biographical material on eighteen black Americans who made significant contributions to science and technology in America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Profiles the accomplishments of twenty-four American Black women over the past three centuries.

Presents biographical sketches of more than twenty African Americans who have served in either elected or appointed positions in the national government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Presents single-page biographies of twenty-four African rulers, from Menes, who lived 3000 years before Christ to Haile Selassie, a twentieth-century emperor.

Profiles the accomplishments of twenty-four American Black women over the past three centuries.

Presents biographies of twenty-four black men and women who made notable contributions in the arts, including Marion Anderson, James Baldwin, Alexander Dumas, Lorraine Hansberry, Paul Robeson, and Bert Williams.

Presents biographies of twenty-four black men and women who made notable contributions in the fields of government, education, law, journalism, religion, medicine, sports, and the arts.