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

When Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955, she sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and a

A brief biographical sketch of Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest figures in the American civil rights movement.

Biography of a poor boy from New Orleans who became a jazz musician who is beloved around the world.

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate F

A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented

Describes the racial prejudice experienced by Jackie Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black player in Major Leag

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.

Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority.

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

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