race relations

Contains a collection of documents from newspapers, journals, periodicals, and trade publication from the North and the South on issues of African American protest and migration between 1915 and 1918 following the economic depression in the South after World War One.

Juan Williams argues that African-Americans are once more in crisis, and urges African-American men and women to address the cultural failure of their community and return to the traditional black values of self-help, strong families, and belief in God.

Gilbert Mason chronicles the experiences he had while living in Mississippi during the civil rights movement.

Lee continues her journey through the parallel world of Nawlins, accompanied by the blues-singing swamp monster Bayou, in a search for Brer Rabbit in order to find her kidnapped friend Lily and save her father from a lynching.

Henry McAllan's wife, Laura, has a hard time adjusting when she moves from the city to a Mississippi farm in 1946. Soon, two brothers-in-arms arrive home from fighting in World War II: Jamie McAllan is charming, handsome, and sensitive to Laura's situation, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, tries his best to endure the bigotry he receives now that he is back home.

Traces the history of Black Power in the United States from the movement's origins in 1966 to the present, discussing the civil rights activists who have fought for the cause, the movement's impact on American history, the controversies surrounding it, and other related topics.

Offers a detailed account of the civil rights battle in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and discusses why those events signaled a turning point in the movement.

Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the civil rights movement through first-hand reports and photographs depicting the climactic moments from the politicians, activists, and citizens who demanded equality for all.

Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.