Brief biographical essays about 14 African-Americans are followed by short dramatizations for children to act out. Arthur A. Schomburg, Leontyne Price, Garrett A. Morgan and Ida B. Wells are a few of the individuals included in this original approach to bringing these achievers to life. Much hard-to-find information is made easily accessible. A handsomely designed volume. (Ages 8-12)

Presents biographical sketches of fourteen notable blacks, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and "Satchel" Paige, accompanied by brief skits in which readers can act out imagined scenes from their lives.