A biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Examines the life and basketball career of the high-scoring player with the Chicago Bulls, who made a brief attempt to play minor league baseball in 1994.

The life of the woman who, although a slave, gained renown throughout the colonies as the first important black American poet.

A biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

Presents the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.

A biography of one of America's greatest track and field athletes, the winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

A biography of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.

A biography of the versatile and prolific Afro-American writer, well-known for her novels and collections of black folklore.