Milton Meltzer

A biography of the nineteenth-century poet, which presents his life in the context of his times, and includes samples of his writing.

With an emphasis on her early years, covers the life of Winnie Mandela, who married a prominent fighter for racial equality in South Africa and later became a leader in her own right.

Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.

A short history of the Jews in America from 1654 and their first permanent community of twenty-three persons in New Amsterdam to the present, stressing the difficulties they have continually faced asan ethnic minority.

Tells the story of a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s who devoted his life to writing about the black experience in America.

Examines the nature of poverty in America, its effects on children, women, the elderly, and racial minorities, and past and present efforts to fight it.