race relations

Based on a true story, in April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, Charles Mears, a white, eighteen-year-old reporter, covers his first murder case. It is the trial of an uneducated African American girl named Virginia Christian who stands accused of killing her white employer. Virginia died in the electric chair, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. The book tells the story of the trial and its aftermath using actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts.

Kathryn Johnson, one of the only female reporters there, covered the civil rights movement across the South in the 1960's often risking her own safety to observe first-hand the events of this era. She witnessed the integration of the University of Georgia by dressing as a student, hid unobserved under a table near an infamous schoolhouse door in Alabama, and marched with the crowd from Selma to Montgomery. She was on her way to a movie date when word came that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. She immediately changed her plans and went to cover the story. Johnson's many years covering King and the movement gave her immediate access and King's family trusted her as a discreet, observant witness to a pivotal moment in American history.

A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.

Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.

Examines the rape trials of the Scottsboro boys, the nine young African-American men accused of assaulting two white women in Alabama in 1931, and discusses the case's impact on American race relations the civil rights movement.

Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.

An illustrated overview of the life of Rosa Parks, focusing on her influence on civil rights.

Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.

A girl growing up in a small southern town must face bigotry and hatred when her lawyer father defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman.

Presents the true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who, in 1960, became the first African-American student to attend her elementary school in New Orleans.