Forty-five color-ready illustrations depict a group of remarkable people - Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom in 1838; Sojourner Truth, a crusader for women's rights and racial equality; author Toni Morrison; Colin Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and other celebrities, including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, WEB Du Bois, Richard Wright, Rosa Parks, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Marcus Garvey, Jesse Jackson, Yubi Blake, Mother Hale, Thurgood Marshall, Catherine Dunham, Marian Anderson and many others