Tells how the young Louis Armstrong developed his musical talent as an inmate in an orphanage, and describes his subsequent career as a leading jazz musician.
In mid-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, an old woman and a young village girl conspire to save a runaway African slave by passing her off as the woman's niece.
When Jamal gets in trouble for fighting over the back seat of a bus, his father and grandfather engage him in a discussion about the Montgomery bus boycott and Martin Luther King.
An illustrated account of Viola Desmond's stand against unfair treatment after she refused to move from the main floor to the balcony at a movie theater because she was of African descent.
