blacks

A record of African-American achievement, featuring four thousand chronologically arranged entries that provide information about barrier-breaking pioneers in arts and entertainment, business, civil rights and protest, education, government, journalism, the military, religion, science, sports, and others.

Compiles historical, biographical, and statistical facts about Afro-Americans.

The son of a Jewish father and black mother, high school senior Zack has never been allowed to meet his mother's family, but after doing a research project on a former slave, he travels from his home in Canada to Natchez, Mississippi, to find his grandfather.

On t.p.: Prepared for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. 28 photographic essays with text.

Presents more than four hundred biographical entries on twentieth-century black writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

A biography of the Black South African leader, focusing on his struggle to overthrow the tyrannies of apartheid.

Wishing to make beautiful music, Lindiwe captures the songs of six birds in her new flute.

Having found an enormous sum of money and been threatened with punishment by their parents for not turning it in to the police, gawky eleven-year-old Julia and her bad-tempered friend Nathan flee London for Brighton and the open countryside.