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Contains free-flowing text and the work of thirteen award-winning artists to present a poetic history of the civil rights movement. Profiles ten African Americans who contributed to the struggle for equality and then passed the baton on to the next person including Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Barack Obama, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of...

Investigates the true story of the Port Chicago Navy base, which in World War II was used as a bomb-loading base for the Navy in the Pacific. Segregation was in effect, and every serviceman loading the bombs was black. When an explosion due to unsafe working conditions killed over three hundred servicemen, fifty black sailors refused to return to work until the unsafe conditions were dealt with, launching an early event in the civil rights movement....

Ten episodes, one for each decade of the 20th century, highlight stories in African American history from the 20th century that were either omitted from or marginally discussed in history textbooks to date. A mini biography, Someone you should know, follows each decade's story to highlight the life of a significant historical figure of the decade. Segments are accompanied by individual lessons plans. This documentary/lesson plans curriculum was...

"The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without...

Scope and content: Diary used as autograph book. Inscription in front indicates that Gladys Charlestine Matlock of Knoxville was given the diary by Peg Kessner at Christmas 1929. The book is signed by classmates of Matlock at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College in Nashville, Tenn. during the spring of 1933. Inscriptions include quotes, aphorisms, rhymes, humorous ditties and poems, and an occasional drawing or sketch. Some students...