biography

Unita Blackwell reflects on her rise from poverty to power after she joined the civil rights movement, becoming a freedom fighter and social activist and eventually her town's mayor.

Presents biographical blurbs on 1,001 individuals in politics, business, sports, entertainment, and other arenas, briefly describing the ways they shaped the U.S.

Tells the story of Isabel Grameson, an upper-class Peruvian woman who in 1741 married Jean Godin, a member of a team of French mapmakers exploring South America, focusing on her three-thousand-mile trek down the length of the Amazon to reach her husband after they were separated on opposite sides of the continent--victims of international politics.

A memoir that chronicles the author's journey back to his ancestral home in Ghana in search of his roots.

A collection of writings, including fiction and essays, that combine to present a portrait of New York's Harlem community as it has changed throughout history.

Presents a collection of stories and documents about the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, and describes the history of violence and abuse, other civil rights leaders involved, and firsthand accounts from segregationists.

Presents the true story of Salome Muller, a German immigrant girl who was lost to her family in the early 1800s and sold into slavery, her French master who claimed she was part African, and the desperate struggle for her freedom that led to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Barbara Drake chronicles the experiences she and her family had after moving to a farm in western Oregon's Yamhill Valley.

Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

Profiles the women whose bravery, convictions, and patriotism impacted the formation of the United States, focusing on the contributions of the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the country's founding fathers.