Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.

"The life of Junius G. Groves, a sharecropper in Kansas who grew a modest potato farm into a potato kingdom."--

Tells the story of four-year-old Sarah Roberts, the first Afr ican American girl to try to integrate a white school, and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion.

In Harlem in the 1920s, in the middle of a family Christmas party, Marie receives a nutcracker from her Uncle Cab, which leads to a marvelous dream in this resetting of E.T.A. Hoffmann's familiar tale. Includes historical notes.

"Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers' March."--Provided by publisher.

This extraordinary union of poetry and monumental artwork captures the movement for civil rights in the United States, and honors it's most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.

"Growing up in Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall could see that things weren't fair. The laws said that Blacks and white people couldn't use the same schools, parks, or water fountains. When Thurgood had to read the Constitution as punishment for a prank at school, his eyes were opened. It was clear to him that Jim Crow laws were wrong, and he was willing to do whatever it took to change them. His determination to make sure all Americans were treated equally...

Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.

Paula Young Shelton shares her memories of the civil rights movement and her involvement in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.