The patchwork path

By Bettye Stroud

While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to...

The world's wide open

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A collection of poems that celebrates the essence and experiences of young African American children.

Dance y'all

By Bettye Stroud

With the help of his grandfather and his sleepwalking cousin, Jack Henry overcomes his fear of the long coachwhip snake he's seen in the barn.

The leaving

By Bettye Stroud

In the days following the end of slavery, a little girl helps her family escape from a cruel plantation owner.

The patchwork path

By Bettye Stroud

While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to...

The Patchwork Path

By Bettye Stroud Illustrated By Erin Susanne Bennett

The images stitched into Hannah's quilt lead to secret signposts on the Underground Railroad as she and her father take flight from slavery on a perilous path to freedom.Now that Hannah’s pap...

A Personal Tour of Tuskegee Institute (How It Was (Minneapolis, Minn.).)

By Bettye Stroud

Presents a tour of the black vocational training school in Alabama through the eyes of some of the people who taught and studied there in 1905.

Down home at Miss Dessa's

By Bettye Stroud

In the South, in the 1940s, two young Afro-American sisters spend the day caring for an elderly neighbor.

The Reconstruction Era The Drama of African American History

By Virginia Schomp, Bettye Stroud

Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend

By Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Bettye Stroud Illustrated By John Holyfield

“This small snapshot of the protest movement pays homage to both the determination of ordinary folk and the power of Dr. King’s words. . . . An intergenerational story filled with heart...