Alex Haley

After eleven years of research to uncover the facts of his heritage, Haley shares the saga of an American black family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself

The controversial leader of the Black Muslims tells the story of his life and his part in the civil rights movement.

A biography of the Zapotec Indian who grew up to become the President of Mexico and lead his country in a war for independence.

Relates how a series of letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855, were instrumental in inciting the California gold rush.

Describes the struggle of Seminole chief and warrior Osceola to save his people from being forced off their land in Florida.