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We Shall Overcome
Uses the words of spirituals and other music of the time to frame a discussion of the civil rights movement in the United States, focusing on specific people, incidents, and court cases.
Nelson Mandela
Presents a biography of the black South African leader who became a civil rights activist, political prisoner, and president of South Africa.
Colin Powell
A biography covering the childhood and military and political careers of General Colin Powell.
The New Advocate
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Black History: Leaders
In honor of Black History Month, comic book publisher TidalWave Productions offers a special trade paperback featuring biographies of leading African-American personalities. The 96-page anthology includes the unabridged issues featuring Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, and Condoleezza Rice. These biographies were previously published as individual issues of TidalWave's biographical comic titles Female Force and Political Power.
Nelson Mandela
Tells the life story of Nelson Mandela, who fought for human rights, endured years in prison, and became the President of South Africa.
Half an Inch from the Edge
Half an Inch from the Edge: Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation is a book about the tensions and opportunities reflected in today’s public school classrooms in the U.S. Through detailed case studies of four classrooms, the authors explore socially transformative pedagogy in action. The result is a narrative that intertwines a critical social analysis of our educational system with real-life examples from K-12 classrooms. The four teachers highlighted in the book are new, urban, socially-conscious educators of Color who strive to make their classrooms something new and something different—spaces where youth can learn about and express their own cult...
Sitting for Equal Service
"We were hoping [the sit-in] would catch on and it would spread throughout the country, but it went even beyond our wildest imagination."―Ezell Blair Jr., North Carolina Agricultural & Technical college student On February 1, 1960, four black college students sat down at the whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth's department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The young men knew the waitress couldn't take their order because of the store's segregationist policies. But the young men hadn't come to eat―they had come to make a peaceful stand for equality. At this time in the southern United States, a long-standing tradition of segregation prohibited blacks from sharing public spaces―s...
The March on Washington
Chronicles the August 1963 March on Washington to demand equal rights for African-Americans.
