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Days of Jubilee

The End of Slavery in the United States

by McKissack, Patricia C. & McKissack, Pat & Dillon, Leo & and others.McKissack, Fredrick

Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the Unit...

Harriet Tubman

Moses of the Underground Railroad

by McKissack, Pat & McKissack, Fredrick

Examines the life of the twentieth-century African-American singer and actor who spoke out against racism and injustice.

Nzingha

Warrior Queen of Matamba

by McKissack, Pat

Presents the fictional diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day ag...

Run Away Home

by McKissack, Pat

In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.

Sojourner Truth

Ain't I a Woman?

by McKissack, Pat & McKissack, Fredrick

A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

W. E. B. DuBois

by McKissack, Pat & McKissack, Fredrick

Examines the upbringing, education, writings, and political activities of one of the founders of the NAACP.

The Civil Rights Movement in America from 1865 to the present

by McKissack, Pat & McKissack, Fredrick

From the beginning of Reconstruction to the present, traces the struggle of blacks to gain their civil rights in America, with a brief comparison of their prob...