Benjamin Banneker

by Laura Baskes Litwin

Published 29 January 2008
A biography of the eighteenth-century African-American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C.

Fannie Lou Hamer

by Laura Baskes Litwin

Published 16 January 2004
A biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice.