Frank Carlson Library

A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground railroad.

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal. Using the common experience of shopping & preparing dinner, this book, which features an African American family, teaches youngsters the numbers from one to ten. A counting book that features an African-American family shopping for food, preparing dinner, and sitting down to eat. Lively read-aloud text.

In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

Examines the life and accomplishments of the African American writer, performer, and teacher, as well as her impact on literature and black culture.

Describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker in the fields of science and architecture, as well as his impact as one of the pioneers in promoting equality.

"Describes the people and events of the U.S civil rights movement. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a Little Rock resident, a Freedom Rider, and a Birmingham protester"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, as well as his impact on the civil rights movement.