Irene Smalls

A young girl and her grandmother enjoy a day filled with tea parties, hide-and-seek, stories, and plenty of love.

In 1957, a young girl is torn between life in the neighborhood she grew up in and fitting in at the school she now attends.

Determined to be the strawbeater during the corn shucking party, Jess, a small young slave boy, wrestles a bigger, stronger boy for the honor.

In this rhyming story, a young African American boy tries to avoid taking a bath but once inside the tub, he discovers that he likes it.

When Alicia makes a new friend and becomes involved in the fun activities of an integrated kindergarten, she soon forgets her former anxieties about beginning school.

Relates the adventures of a young girl, living in Harlem in the 1950's, on the morning that she finds a nickel in the street.

On a North Carolina plantation, a young slave girl's Christmas is brightened by the Johnkankus parade she witnesses as she waits for her parents to come home.

"From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became a clarion call across the country in the late 1960's. Through the stories of these young men and women who were at the forefront of these...