Beneath the Blazing Sun is a powerful collection of 18 stories that explores the African American experience from its roots in West Africa to the present day.

The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during...

When Alice Coachman was a girl, most white people wouldn't even shake her hand. Yet when the King of...

Facts and photographs about the inspiring journeys of these history-making men and women are...

A biography of the escaped slave who became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist...

Brief text and pictures present the life of a man, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted...

An introduction to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from his childhood to his assassination...

The story of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama...

An illustrated biography of Mary McLeod Bethune, the daughter of former slaves who wanted nothing...

The story of Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend an all-white school in New...

Magulu is only nine years old when she is taken by slave traders and brought to the Americas. She is...