Children's author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer.
Graphic novel adaptations of stories and poems written by some of America's earliest African American authors, including W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and Alice Dunbar Nelson.
An interview with African-American children's authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack in their home. Includes the authors' reading one of their stories.
The author examines his brother's life in comparison to his own and asks himself why they are so different, one a college professor, one sentenced to life imprisonment.
A memoir in which the author tells how he discovered basketball as a boy living in Pittsburgh, and discusses the significance of the game to his life and the lives of other African-Americans.
a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
Megna-Wallace, Joanne
1998
Studies the major issues that are present in Maya Angelou's autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and discusses how it reflects many of the challenges that African-Americans have to face.
