Shirley Graham Du Bois

A biography of the actor and singer renowned all over the world for his interpretations of various operatic roles.

Biography of the renowned Negro educational leader and organizer of Tuskegee Institute who spent his life trying to improve the lot of his people.

The heroic story of Frederick Douglass.

In the late nineteenth century in an America colonized by Africa, two men of very different backgrounds become caught in the middle as a rebellion builds toward civil war and divided loyalties threaten to destroy them.

A biography of the Negro scientist whose childhood love for plants led him into a botanical and agricultural career.

Here is the first intimate study of one of the earliest and greatest spokesmen for black liberation - W.E.B. Du Bois - as only his wife could have seen him. Events and personalities crowd this rich memoir - Du Bois's break with the NAACP (which he helped to found), the McCarthy era, and his trial as "an agent of a foreign principal." Here are his triumphant tours abroad, his talks with Kruschev and Mao, his friendship with Nkrumah and final move to Ghana. All of this is part of a personal document of human dignity and achievement. --from inside jacket flap.

Traces the life of an American Negro poet from her sale as a child slave in Boston to her untimely death.

A biography of the African nationalist who led Tanganyika to independence, united that country with Zanzibar, and became the first president of Tanzania.