Jo's preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, Alabama, and is not prepared for 1950s-style racism and hatred she encounters after she becomes friends with a young African-American boy.
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Vols. 1-3 tell the story of America's civil rights years from 1954 to 1965; vols. 4-7 examine the new America from 1966 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty.
"Explores age old debates regarding American equality, segregation, and discrimination. Concepts include: question and answers, opinions, and debates. Activities allow the reader to create their own stance on several topics related to equality"--.
Homer Plessy and the supreme court decision that legalized racism
Fireside, Harvey
2005
In 1892 African-American Homer A. Plessy is involved in an event of civil disobedience, but the United States Supreme Court approved segregation laws as part of life in the South and his case before it lost.
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in own: the public library.
