african americans

Recounts the freedom ride of John Lewis and Jim Zwerg into the South in 1961 as part of the Civil Rights Movement.

The 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.

Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.

Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and the major persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses.

Relates the true story of the Matthew and Mae Carter family, in simple text with illustrations, and how they helped to integrate an all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, suffering years of name-calling, humiliation, and death threats.

Presents a collection of nine original tales drawn from African American oral tradition that blends history and legend with sly humor, creepy horror, villainous characters, and wild farce.

An elderly slave uses the power of his mind to ease the suffering of other slaves and eventually leads them back to Africa.

Poems celebrate the special relationship between a fiesty grandmother and her equally spunky granddaughter.

Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.

Presents profiles of ten African-American women whose efforts on behalf of racial justice and freedom have influenced the course of history.