race relations

Discusses the life of Rosa Parks, focusing on her work in the fight for Civil Rights in America.

Tells the story of Sharon Langley and her family, who were the first African Americans to visit the rides at the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Baltimore, Maryland after the park became desegregated in 1963. Includes additional information about Sharon Langley, the carousel, and the Civil Rights movement, as well as a timeline and resources for further reading.

"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists"--OCLC.

A biography of Rosa Parks that provides background information on her involvement in the civil rights movement, discussing her arrest for failing to give up her seat on a bus, which started the Montgomery bus boycott.

Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in at the lunch counter at Woolworth's as a protest against segregation.

A biography of civil rights activist and icon Rosa Parks.

"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? ... Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police"--Provided by publisher.

The author introduces the concept of race as only one component in an individual's or nation's "story.".

A short biography for young readers about civil rights activist Ida B. Wells.

A young adult adaptation of Tim Madigan's The Burning, which discusses the circumstances of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.