race relations

Discusses the history of segregation in the United States, explaining how the Freedom Rides played a part in the civil rights movement.

In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.

An African-American family in Depression era Mississippi battles the odds to hold onto their property and their self-respect.

Traces in six volumes the history and contributions of minority groups in the United States from the arrival of the first settlers to the present.

While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a African American Union soldier.

Twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson learns that she will be attending an all-white school in the fall; but when her best friend is diagnosed with polio, she must face the first day of school alone.

Relates the true story of the Matthew and Mae Carter family, in simple text with illustrations, and how they helped to integrate an all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, suffering years of name-calling, humiliation, and death threats.

When the sixteen-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship.

In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African-American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.

In 1964, Joe is pleased that a new law will allow his best friend John Henry, who is African-American, to share the town pool and other public places with him, but he is dismayed to find that prejudice still exists.