segregation

Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.

Recreates the author's boyhood experiences in South Africa.

Provides a look at the South African way of life and racial policy.

Provides an analysis of the Plessy v. Ferguson case in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of separate but equal accommodations on intrastate railroads, setting the stage for a system of legal segregation in the U.S., and includes a collection of primary source documents related to the case.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.

With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.

Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961.

Tricia Ann experiences the humiliation of segregation as she ventures out into Nashville by herself in the 1950s, but bolstered by the love, respect, and pride of her grandmother and other elders, she continues on to reach "Someplace Special"--the public library where all are welcome.

Recounts how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama organized and participated in the 1955 bus boycott which ended segregation on public buses.

Presents the script for Bruce Norris's satirical play in which Russ and Bev create discontent among their white neighbors when their sell their two-bedroom home in Clybourne Parke to an African-American family in 1959, which is echoed fifty years later when African-Americans disapprove of a young white couple's purchase of the same house which they plan to tear down and build anew.