Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.

Coretta Scott King Award winner.

Benjamin Banneker : Surveyor of the Sky -- Frederick Douglass : Capital Orator -- Booker T. Washington : Polished Pioneer -- W.E.B. DuBois : Erudite Educator -- A. Philip Randolph : Always Striding Ahead -- Thurgood Marshall : Mr. Civil Rights -- Jackie Robinson : Game-Changer -- Malcolm X : Spark-Light -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : Nonviolent Visionary -- Barack H. Obama, Jr. : Holding on to Hope -- Timeline.