Barbara Chaney

Young boys go on an adventure to seek out a legendary ghost, but find something far more valuable instead.

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A factory worker is convinced to hijack a helicopter and help two prisoners escape from jail.

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Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.

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Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

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In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.

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