The story of Jackie Robinson and the integration of major league baseball. Nathaniel B. Free ruminates on friendship, families, life, and death. The People Could Fly. Retold African American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of slaves, but passed on in hope. The text of the familiar psalm comparing God to a loving shepherd accompanies illustrations which show the world of love and fear faced by an urban African-American family.
Nobody Owns the Sky.
A rhymed telling of the life of the first African American aviator, who dreamed of flying as a child and persevered until she made the dream come true. Myers, Walter Dean. A collection of poems, accompanied by photographs, about African American children living around the turn of the century. Thomas, Joyce Carol. Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea.