Presents brief biographies of twelve African Americans who courageously fought against racism to become leaders in their fields, including Marian Anderson, Ralph Bunche, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X.
Recounts the extraordinary friendship between Jerome Foxworthy, a top stuent, loving son, basketball star, and first black to integrate his southern high school, and Bix, a white athlete facing a crisis in his life.
Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, overcomes many setbacks including the Great Depression of the 1930's as he works to save enough money to open his own barbershop.
Tells how the young Louis Armstrong developed his musical talent as an inmate in an orphanage, and describes his subsequent career as a leading jazz musician.
In mid-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, an old woman and a young village girl conspire to save a runaway African slave by passing her off as the woman's niece.
When Jamal gets in trouble for fighting over the back seat of a bus, his father and grandfather engage him in a discussion about the Montgomery bus boycott and Martin Luther King.
