Ten-year old Ben Franklin finds working in his father's candle shop boring-- he'd much rather be doing experiments and cannot wait to test out his latest idea involving a kite!
Relates an incident from the childhood of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., when his best friend's father said they could no longer play together because "colored and white can't mix!"
Young Thomas Edison saves a child from being hit by a train and, as his reward, asks for training as a telegraph operator because that will help him prepare to become an inventor.
Seven-year-old George "Babe" Ruth, who would grow up to become a baseball legend, steals a dollar from his father's saloon to buy ice cream for his friends.
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