A biography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the major leagues, as told by his daughter.

A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

Westley Wallace Law was a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal system, but he carried much more to the segregated Savannah, Georgia. He helped to establish voter schools to assist blacks in registering to vote. He joined the NAACP and trained protesters in nonviolent civil disobedience. In 1961, he led the famous Great Savannah Boycott which led to that city becoming the first in the South to end racial discrimination.

Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.

As first President of the United States of America and before, George Washington was a legendary leader of men. He had high expectations concerning his soldiers, and his employees at his home in Mount Vernon. He expected his workers at the home he loved to be loyal and work from sun up to sun down. The only thing is that his workers were slaves..."my people" he called them. He regarded them as his property and although he helped founded a document...

"In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but then outside agitators interfered, pitting the townspeople against one another. Uneasiness turned into anger, and even the Clinton Twelve themselves wondered...

Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to attend an all-white public school in the southern United States. Before she helped desegregate schools and change the course of history, Ruby had a simple childhood. She was a happy girl who helped take care of her younger siblings and loved to play outside. Her life changed when she was chosen to attend William Frantz Elementary, where she became a civil rights leader at a very young age. Explore how Ruby...

"When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her parents were the first African American family to walk into...

"A picture book biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action"--