(1969) Tear Down the Walls!: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement (1978) Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls (1984) We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (1994) The Trouble They Seen: Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans (1994) Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelly and the Politics of Antislavery (1996) The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885 (1998) Speak Out in Thunder Tones Autobiography (2005) Close to My Heart: An Autobiography Awards Inclusion in the 1960-1961 William Allen White Children's Book Award Masterlist of Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls 1977 Carter G. Woodson Book Award winner for The Trouble They Seen: Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans References External links Guide to the Dorothy Sterling papers at the University of Oregon American writers of young adult literature American non-fiction children's writers Historians of African Americans Historians of the United States 20th-century American historians 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American autobiographers Women autobiographers American nature writers American mystery writers Women mystery writers American women children's writers American children's writers American women historians American women journalists American women novelists Jewish American historians Jewish American novelists Jewish women writers Jewish socialists Carter G. Woodson Book Award winners Members of the Communist Party USA American tax resisters 1913 births 2008 deaths