race relations

Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.

Presents profiles of ten African-American women whose efforts on behalf of racial justice and freedom have influenced the course of history.

Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II.

The classic story of a mischievous nineteenth-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.

A biography of civil rights activist and icon Rosa Parks.

A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.

A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

Explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between the African-American residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma and the neighboring white population in 1921 and recounts the events leading up to the destruction of the African-American community by a white mob.

Profiles the African-American woman whose quiet act of civil disobedience, refusing to go to the back of a segregated public bus in 1955, inspired the early Civil Rights movement.

"Many Americans believe they are living in a post-racial society, pointing to the election of Barack Obama to the presidency as evidence. Others believe that, despite the advances achieved by the civil rights movement, people of color are treated as second-class citizens. Is race overemphasized in America? Have government programs and policies done enough to level the playing field? Can the United States, a country that lives by the credo that all men are created equal, ever overcome its legacy of racism? Readers of this multifaceted anthology will be given the tools to form their own opinions about these complex issues"--Amazon.