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A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

"On-point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the story of the civil rights marches to life. Kids will learn about the way in which Southern States kept African Americans from voting and the history that led to nonviolent civil rights marches to fight for the right to vote guaranteed by the Constitution. As an added bonus, readers will learn about how this played out on TV and galvanized the civil rights movement, leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Seeing the brutality on TV turned the fight for voting rights in the South into a national cause"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the events after the Civil War, known as reconstruction, and the challenges faced by politicians in rebuilding the Union. Discusses the early stages of bringing civil rights to recently freed slaves, and provides a broad overview of the challenges and successes of rebuilding the nation with different racial and federal government priorities. Includes a timeline, a glossary, maps, archival images, and resources for further information.

Ten-year-old Beth is kidnapped from her Georgia home and held captive, relying only on her will to survive. Seven years later, Imogene is burying her father, a Klan leader, when she is confronted with his secrets--a child in a locked basement on her father's property. Imogene's search for the child's mother leads her to Beth's disappearance years before, and she presses ahead looking for answers despite the threat of retaliation from the Klan that could change Imogene's life forever.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic anti-slavery novel about the realities of slavery in the pre-Civil War South.

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.

The Black Panther--T'Challa, King of the small African nation of Wakanda--returns to his kingdom where he faces interlopers and would-be revolutionaries in one of comicdom's first multi-issue story arcs. Over its course, the life and culture of the Wakandans is explored in detail. Then, the Black Panther is sent to the American South to seek justice for a murder connected to the Klan and the Soul Strangler. Also includes the Panther's first appearance, featuring the Fantastic Four.

Chronicles the adventures of African slave Esteban Dorantes and three Spanish noblemen, who explored the American South between 1500 and 1539 and survived shipwreck, famine, Indian attacks, and disease.

A collection of thirty-nine previously published and two unpublished stories by twentieth-century American author Eudora Welty.

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.