Traces the life of the athelete who broke the color barrier in major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

A biography of the American jazz vocalist who has had a successful singing career for fifty years.

Examines the life of the Harlem poet who spent his career writing about the black experience in America.

Follows the life of the black explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on the expedition to the North Pole.

A biography of the slave and preacher who, believing that God wanted him to free the slaves, led a major revolt in 1831.

Traces the life of the former slave who could neither read nor write, yet earned a reputation as one of the most articulate and outspoken antislavery and women's rights activists in the United States.

A biography of the Black Muslim who became a leader of a movement to unite black people throughout the world.

Examines the life of the first black man to be appointed an associate justice of the highest court in the country.

Describes the life of the energetic abolitionist, including her origins as a slave in Maryland, her role as a "conductor" for the Underground Railroad, her service to the Union during the Civil War, and her role in establishing an old-age home for Afro-Americans.