Miller, William

An illustrated account of Frederick Douglass's life as a slave, which tells the story of how he refused to let an overseer break his spirit, determining never to think nor act like a slave.

Despite being told that only whites can play golf, James becomes a caddy and is befriended by an older African American man who teaches him to play on the course at night.

An African-American child protests an unjust law in this story loosely based on Rosa Parks's historic decision not to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.

When an overseer named Covey sets out to break his spirit, Frederick Douglass fights back and learns not to think or act like a slave.

A biography of the writer whose works captured the oral tradition of African-American life in the South.