african american educators

An exploration of the qualities of leadership as displayed in prominent African Americans, including interviews with L. Douglas Wilder, Governor of Virginia; Marian Wright Edelman, founder and director of the Children's Defense Fund; and Dr. James P. Comer, director ofthe Yale University Child Study Center.

In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive mansion with the First Family. The next morning, news that the president had dined with a Black man and former slave, sent shock waves through the nation. One seemingly ordinary dinner became a window onto post-Civil War American history and politics. The scandal of this dinner escalated and threatened to topple two of America's greatest men.

Briefly presents, in graphic novel format, the life and inventions and innovations of agriculturist and educator George Washington Carver.