A biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., African American civil rights activist, whose leadership during the 1950s and 1960s helped legally abolis

Examines the personal life and basketball career of the high-scoring player with the Chicago Bulls, who made a brief attempt to play minor league

Briefly recounts the life of the black minister who devoted his life to civil rights and discusses the national holiday in his name: Martin Luthe

Recounts the story of Ellen and William Craft's daring escape in 1848 from slavery in Georgia to freedom in Pennsylvania.

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

Traces the life and achievements of the twentieth-century African American novelist, whose early life was shaped by a strict grandmother who had

A biography of Guy Bluford, the first black American in space, part of the crew of the space shuttle "Challenger" on its August 1983 flight.

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