african americans

A chance meeting with a woman astronaut encourages Gloria to try to be her best self, even with her difficult fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Yardley.

Examines the boyhood, education, and teaching career of George Washington Carver, and discusses his role in helping farmers by inventing new ways to use crops.

Florrie's daddy used to be a stage actor in Harlem before the Depression forced the Lafayette Theater to close, but he gets a chance to act again when Orson Welles reopens the theater to stage an all-black version of Macbeth.

Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.

Uncle Booker T., who makes magic by playing his harmonica music from his heart, spends the summer teaching Derrick how to play.

As the contents of Miss Opal's house are auctioned off before she moves to a retirement home, Annie recalls all the things they did together, from baking cookies and making ice cream to listening to ball games on her old radio.

When they try to find out who is doing their chores while they are working in the field, a childless couple discovers that the two stones they have brought home are actually two bewitched orphans.

Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African-American children.

Explains how the nearly four million slaves and nearly half a million free blacks gained freedom and basic rights as citizens, following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

In the post-Civil War South, a young African American girl is determined to prove that she can go to school just like her older brothers.