by Cookie Lommel (2003)
Traces the life and achievements of the black civil rights worker whose greatest accomplishment, the integration of restaurants in Washington, D.C., came when she was nearly ninety years old.
Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin
Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.
Cynthia Klingel
A brief biography of the wife of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who shared his dedication to working peaceably to achieve equality for all Americans.
Amy Robin Jones
A simple biography of the black educator who was instrumental in creating opportunities for blacks in education and government.
Richard M. Haynes
Describes the life of the black woman journalist who was born into slavery and conducted a lifelong crusade for the civil rights of various minorities.