Black history in the pages of children's literature

Africans in the Americas before colonization

The beginning of slavery in the New World

African Americans and the beginning of a new nation

Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, and the voice of Frederick Douglass

The Civil War era

Hope and reconstruction after the Civil War

A land of promise : exploring and settling the west

New laws, old racism : the Jim Crow years

Gaining community, gaining voice : the Harlem Renaissance, the Negro Baseball League, and war

Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the struggle for civil rights

Telling it like it is : stories of today

Selection and inclusion of children's literature about American history : a critique

Outstanding authors and illustrators of children's literature.