southern states

A biography of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his activities on behalf of civil rights.

An illustrated biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, including sidebars with background information on themes relevant to Lewis's life.

After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged.

"Discusses the Freedom Rides, an important event in the Civil Rights Movement, including the riders who risked their lives, the violence the riders faced, and the successful integration of interstate buses and terminals"--Provided by publisher.

The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man.

Introduces young readers to the life of Zora Neale Hurston.

While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.

American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks at America's history from 1861 to 1915, focusing on the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African-American resilience in times of racial unrest and drawing parallels to them with the early twenty-first century in the United States.

While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.