Presents a brief biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," chronicling her early, family life, how slavery impacted her, and what influenced the book she wrote that helped hasten the Civil War.
Contains more than 240 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on figures, events, influences, and other topics in the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
Margaret Bonner, the young pastor of High Balsam's Episcopal church in the Smoky Mountains, enters a disturbing period of change when her life is invaded by a fiery female evangelist, a mysterious itinerant man, and a troubled boy.