Table of Contents:
  • Africans in the Americas before colonization
  • The beginning of slavery in the New World
  • African Americans and the beginning of a new nation
  • Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, and the voice of Frederick Douglass
  • The Civil War era
  • Hope and reconstruction after the Civil War
  • A land of promise : exploring and settling the west
  • New laws, old racism : the Jim Crow years
  • Gaining community, gaining voice : the Harlem Renaissance, the Negro Baseball League, and war
  • Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the struggle for civil rights
  • Telling it like it is : stories of today
  • Selection and inclusion of children's literature about American history : a critique
  • Outstanding authors and illustrators of children's literature.