John Newbery medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. 1951.

A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in th

A biography of the free-born black man who, as a self-taught mathematician and astronomer, helped survey the site of the Nation's Capitol and pub

A biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abol

A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others th

Ruby Bridges tells the story of how she helped end racial segregation in the New Orleans public school system when she was in the first grade.

A biography of the Black explorer who discovered the North Pole.

Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that s

A shortened autobiography presenting the early life of the slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and statesman.

Floyd Cooper writes and illustrates this book about the childhood of Langston Hughes, the poet and author, who, in his search for a true family s

Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal prac