southern states

Provides a script in which two African American students decide to join the Freedom Riders to protest the Jim Crow laws. When the Freedom Riders are beaten by angry mobs in the streets, the governor and the attorney general are forced to get involved. Includes a poem, a song, and a glossary of terms.

Discusses the history of Southern rock music and the people who started the trend, including The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band, and more.

Traces the struggles of African Americans from the end of slavery through the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South, to the civil rights movement and legal equality.

"The American alligator, which escaped extinction 65 million years ago, was nearly wiped out in the marshes and swamps of Louisiana and Florida in the last century. Today, they are thriving. This exciting book tells the story of how government protection, habitat preservation, and a campaign to reduce the demand for alligator products helped bring back these fierce-looking predators"--From the publisher's web site.

Two children in a small southern town in the 1930s are thrust into an adult world of racial bigotry and hatred when their lawyer father defends a black man charged with raping a white girl.

Presents color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by twenty-seven self-taught African-American artists from the Southern U.S., and includes essays that explore the themes and meaning of the work.

Offers a comprehensive exploration of the history and development of African-American vernacular art in the United States during the twentieth century.

Photographs and text help profile six colleges and universities that have the largest collections of African-American art and artifacts.

Explores the situation of slave women in the plantation South and compares the myths that stereotypes them with the reality of their lives.

Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.