arkansas

Thirteen-year-old Olivene Love gets tangled up in a murder mystery when her itinerant preaching family arrives in the small town of Binder, Arkansas in 1957.

Presents a minute-by-minute account of an H-bomb accident that nearly caused a nuclear disaster, examining other near misses and America's growing susceptibility to a catastrophic event.

Describes the experiences of inmates in the Jerome and Rohwer internment camps in Arkansas, where U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent were held during World War II.

A retrospective look at the 1957 integration of nine African-American students into Little Rock Central High School that provides a look at the school fifty years later and discusses the event.

This book is a brief introduction to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Poet Maya Angelou chronicles her early life, focusing on her childhood in 1930s rural Arkansas, including her rape at the age of five, her subsequent years of muteness, and the strength she gained from her grandmother and Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a respected African-American woman in her town.

Examines the life and work of Bill Clinton.

Young Maya leads a precarious existence in racist, Depression-era Arkansas, where she is shunted between her grandmother's house and her mother's--where she is raped--and withdraws into total silence. She endures to share her realization in her valedictory address: "In order to lift your voice, you have to lift your head.".