2004/05
To Be Shared With All Generations
and All Cultures

Josephine

By Josephine Baker

DECEMBER 8, 2004

Capturing the charm of its subject, this autobiography features the voices of Josephine Baker's friends, lovers, colleagues, and family, and chronicles her rise to fame on Broadway and in Paris, and French resistance work during World War II.

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary

By Juan Williams

JANUARY 12, 2005

"Juan Williams has produced an illuminating look at a true giant of 20th-century American politics. Williams retells the story of Thurgood Marshall's successful desegregation of public schools in the U.S. with his victory in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, followed by his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1967 for a 24-year term." - Eugene Holley, Jr.

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

By Angela Davis

FEBRUARY 9, 2005

A political activist and social commentator who always remained unafraid to speak to truth to power tells her story in her own words.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

As Told To Alex Haley

MARCH 9, 2005

Dust Tracks On A Road

By Zora Neale Hurston

APRIL 13, 2005

A moving presentation, in her own words, of the life of an African-American woman who rose from poverty to become an author whose work is read the world over.

Gifted Hands

By Ben Carson

MAY 11, 2005

Carson tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he performs medical miracles on children that have been written off as hopeless.