Alvin Ailey, Jr. : dancer extraordinaire / Harriette Arrington -- Romare Bearden : an artist's life for him / Carol Pugliano and Julianna Dunham -- George Washington Carver : learn all you can / Jaime A. Lucero -- Shirley Chisholm : unbought and unbossed / Kathleen Conkey -- Frederick Douglass : reading, writing, and freedom / J. Haakmat -- Langston Hughes : answering the knock of opportunity / Egypt Freeman -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : nonviolence on the move / Frank Caropreso -- Thurgood Marshall : the fight for equal justice / Jacqueline Charlesworth -- Rosa Parks : the fight for equal rights / Beth Sherman -- Jackie Robinson : in a league of his own / Eric James Charlesworth -- Sojourner Truth : living up to her name / Lynda D. Jones -- Harriet Tubman : north to freedom / Tonya Leslie -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett : writing against injustice / Shelli Milks -- Phillis Wheatley : a poetic voice / Egypt Freeman -- Malcolm X : born too late, died too soon / Justin Martin.