Montrew Dunham

This is a story of singer Mahalia Jackson's childhood, family life, education, gospel singing, recordings, radio programs, and performances in support of the civil rights movement.

A biography stressing the childhood of the naturalist responsible for incorporating Yosemite Park into the National Park system.

On a May evening in 1832, a solitary 50-year-old man on horseback rode toward an oak grove that rose majestically from the quiet Illinois prairie. Stopping at this beautiful site, the man bent a sapling to mark his claim to the rich Illinois farmland that would be his for the settling. In that singular act, Pierce Downer founded the town that would bear his name: Downers Grove, Illinois. He could hardly have imagined the remarkable development of...

Focuses on the early years of the well-known poet, Langston Hughes, whose writings reflect the everyday experiences of African-Americans.

Recounts the childhood and later career of Mahalia Jackson, who became a gospel singer of worldwide fame and sang from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when the Reverend Martin Luther King gave his famous sermon, "I have a dream."

Presents the childhood of the astronaut who became the first man to walk on the moon.

A biography stressing the childhood of America's first woman poet who became known as "The Tenth Muse."

Oliver Holmes was born in 1841. He attended Harvard and served as a union officer in the Civil War. In 1902 He became a justice on the supreme court of the US. In 1935 he died.

Provides a fictional account of the childhood of the "Children's Poet," who wrote more than one hundred poems including "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Old Swimmin' Hole."