Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African-American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

Surveys the history of blacks in the armed forces from the 1600s to the 1980s.

Profiles thirteen African Americans who have excelled in various fields, including medicine, science, civil rights, and exploration.

The eccentric Miss Tizzy, a beloved friend to all the children in her neighborhood, needs their help in remaining happy when she is sick in bed.

Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.

Desta's father describes what it was like for him to grow up in Ethiopia.

Heaven is the perfect name for the small Ohio town where 14-year-old Marley lives. Or at least she thought so until the fateful day when the mysterious letter arrived. Now her life has been turned upside down. Twelve years ago Momma chose to live in Heaven because she liked the name of the town and the white picket fences and the little schoolhouse by the river. Pops agreed that it was a good place after he made sure it had a Western Union office....

The four winds transport Tonieh, an Afro-American boy, from a park near his home to a distant land where they hope the young boy can reverse an evil spell.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is African-American, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.