Forty years after he was brought from Africa to the U.S., this black slave was able to buy his freedom, and spent the rest of his life helping other slaves.

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

"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container....

A brief biography in verse about Harriet Tubman and her dedicated efforts to lead her fellow slaves to freedom.

Marcus Samuelsson remembers his childhood as an adopted Ethiopian in Sweden and his beginnings as a chef.

"Little Black Lives Matter empowers all children, but Black children especially, by affirming that their lives, however little they may yet be, matter. Featuring fifteen great Black heroes of the past and the powerful words they spoke and actions they took, Little Black Lives Matter is a rhyming picture book that incorporates memorable quotations and a reminder to little ones that each of these great people once lived a little Black life themselves....

A biography of civil rights crusader, Corretta Scott who knew the unfairness of segregation in the South.

"Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential and inspiring leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The minister and social activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968."--Provided by publisher.