african americans

Children's author Donald Crews recalls a childhood visit to Bigmama's house in the country, where he finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before.

Biography of Mary Jane McLeod Bethune who made numerous contributions to education for Afro-Americans.

Contains texts of twenty-three spirituals, traditional songs, street cries, chants, hand-clapping songs, and contemporary songs for children, with an appendix discussing the origins of each song and showing the melodic line.

With his mother's help, Wiley outwits the conjuring Hairy Man that lives in the swamp near their home.

A collection of ghost stories with African-American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset.

African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American children describe their families' cultural traditions.

Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.

A biography of the African-American woman who helped over 300 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and was never caught herself.

Traces the life of the African-American woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest.

A biography of the first African-American baseball player to be accepted by a major league team.