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African Americans
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Street LoveThis story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love |
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Copper SunTwo fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to |
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a SandwichThe life of a thirteen-year-old Harlem black boy on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him. |
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The Fifteenth AmendmentExamines the Amendment which gave African-American men the right to vote and discusses the struggle that took place to regain this right when it was denied. |
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Dreams From My FatherBarack Obama tells the story of his life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother, searching for a workable meaning to his life as an African American. |
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Black and WhiteTwo star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught. |
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Autobiography of My Dead BrotherJesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend. |
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The Thirteenth AmendmentPresents an overview of the history of slavery in the United States, its abolition by constitutional amendment in 1865, and the Reconstruction and its aftermath. |
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Brown V. Board of EducationThis book provides a historical overview of the case that desegregated public education in the United States. |
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MonsterWhile on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the cou |
