Reports the experiences of a white man who darkened his skin and traveld through the South as a Negro.

Set in the deep American South between the wars, The color purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker, a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie...

After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.

A young girl and her mother remember together all the girl's favorite stories about her mother's childhood.

A retelling of the classic African American tales about Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies, animals who are constantly on the prowl to fool each other.