Washoe County Library System

Examines the life of the talented black athlete who broke the color barrier in major league baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Today many children dream of playing professional baseball. Perhaps you are one of them. If you have good athletic skills and you work hard, your dream may be realized. But this wasn't always true for athletes in the first part of this century. More was required. A player had to be white. Black players--no...

A brief account of the life of the "Father of Our Country."

A biography of the commander general of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II who became the thirty-fourth President of the United States.

Presents an illustrated biography of the founder of the Girl Scout movement.

A brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.

A biography of the inventor of the cotton gin who also developed basic ideas of mass production in the manufacture of weapons and other machines.

A brief account of the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus.

A biography of the Afro-American woman best known for her work with the underground railroad, describing her childhood as a slave, her escape to the North, her work during the Civil War, and more.