Great African Americans: Books for Independent Readers

The day a slave was freed was his or her Day of Jubilee. Listen to the stories of how some of those days came to be.

As a fourteen-year-old he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator.

Rosa Parks is widely known as perhaps the single most important symbol of the civil rights movement.

In a warm, personal voice, Tonya Bolden explores what it has meant to be young and black in America.

On November 14, 1960, a tiny, six-year-old black child, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. From where she sat in the school's office, Ruby Bridges could see parents marching through the halls and taking their children out of classrooms.