race relations

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White supremacists

2002
Contains articles that provide information about white supremacist organizations, discussing their recruitment tactics, providing a historical perspective on the Ku Klux Klan, examining the scope of white supremacy, and featuring personal accounts of white supremacists and people associated with or victimized by them.

The white separatist movement

2002
Explores the beliefs and activities of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, and such late twentieth-century white supremacist extremist groups as the Christian Identity movement.

Slave Day

1997
Relates the events of a southern high school's "Slave Day" auction and fund raiser, which leads students, teachers, and even community members to rethink their approaches to their lives.

Conversations with James Baldwin

1989
A collection of interviews covering the period 1961-1987 with American author James Baldwin.

Words by heart

1979
A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only blacks.

Busing Brewster

2010
Bused across town to a school in a white neighborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African-American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing.

Glory be

2012
Gloriana faces her twelfth birthday in 1964 and struggles with the changes she sees happening around her, but while she struggles to understand the shift in her relationships with her sister--who is about to enter high school--and her best friend, Frankie, Gloriana witnesses tempers rise in a debate over a segregated public pool.

Going north

2004
A young African American girl and her family leave their home in Alabama and head for Lincoln, Nebraska, where they hope to escape segregation and find a better life.

The gold Cadillac

1987
Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.

The skin I'm in

a first look at racism
2003
Encourages children to accept differences in skin color and other racial characteristics among other people.

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