Product Description: When Rod Brown’s mother spotted an advertisement in the local paper for engineers to work for a company in India and Pakistan, Rod wasn’t sure it was quite his cup of tea. But he applied anyway. After sailing through the interviews and being offered the position, he began to wonder whether this was in fact just the opportunity he needed...read more

Product Description: When young Rod Brown’s mother happened to spot an advertisement in the local paper for engineers to work on a tea company’s estates in India and Pakistan, Rod dismissed the idea. But having put in an application to keep her happy, he was amazed to be offered a position – and soon realised it would give him a chance to break free of the boredom and frustration of his monotonous factory job...read more

Award-winning poet Ntozake Shange and artist Rod Brown reimagine the journeys of the brave men and women who made their way to freedom on the Underground Railroad.Fleeing on the Underground Railroad meant walking long distances; swimming across streams; hiding in abandoned shanties, swamps, and ditches, always on the run from slave trackers and their dogs.ah might get hungry ah may get tired good Lawd /ah may be freeThe Underground Railroad operated on secrecy and trust. But who could be trusted?There were free black and white men and women helping, risking their lives, too. Because freedom was worth any risk. Celebrated collaborators Ntozake Shange and Rod Brown pay tribute to the Underground Railroad, a universal story about the human need to be free.ah am a livin bein’ & ah got to be free

Product Description: Jim Crow; Brown v. Board of Education; Bull Connor; KKK; Birmingham; the Lorraine Motel; Rosa; Martin; and Malcolm. From slavery to the separation of "colored" and "white" and from horrifying oppression to inspiring courage, there are countless stories—both forgotten and immortalized—of everyday and extraordinary people who acted for justice during the civil rights movement that changed our nation...read more

Having befriended the Jewish peddler who comes periodically to her rural Southern community, Jenny is fascinated by his stories of faraway places and his photograph of his niece in New York City.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Traces the African American slave experience through paintings beginning with the Middle Passage and concluding with images of post-Civil War emancipation.