Explores the events surrounding the Plessy v. Ferguson legal case, which centered around Homer Adolph Plessy, a man of mixed race, seating himself in an all-white train car. Discusses how the Plessy v. Ferguson case reflected issues of race in the late nineteenth century and outlines the impact of this case's ruling.
In 1953, Leah Hopper dreams of leaving the poverty and segregation of her home in Sulphur, Louisiana, and when Aunt Olivia sends train tickets to Los Angeles as part of her tenth birthday present, Leah gets a first taste of freedom.
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
In 1948 Alabama, twelve-year-old cotton pickers Ted Dillon, a white boy, and Poudlum, an African-American, hatch a plan to aid an escaped African-American convict and save Poudlum's family from those who would steal their livelihood.
the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality
Klarman, Michael J
2006
Spells out in detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations.
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.
