southern states

"Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Freedom Riders during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement"--.

Narrative text describes the artist's paintings and their portrayal of the lives of her African American relatives in the rural American South.

Examines the story of George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia, two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their lives--and their family's destiny.

A group of six women, college friends who have been meeting biannually for thirty years, put aside their individual woes to provide a circle of strength when one of them is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Bo and Pollo, white and black, watch as their idyllic sixteenth summer turns dark and violent due to the Jim Crow laws and small-mindedness of the 1950s, and years later they are forced to confront their shared history in order to save their friendship.

The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they worked for, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress in Louisiana and Mississippi. Based on interviews with over fifty people?both white and black?these stories deliver a personal and powerful message about resilience and resistance in the face of oppression in the Jim Crow South. The housekeepers, caretakers, sharecroppers, and cooks who share their stories in The Maid Narratives ultimately moved away during the Great Migration. Their perspectives as servants who left for better opportunities outside of the South offer an original telling of physical and psychological survival in a racially oppressive caste system.

Uncle Tom, a slave in the American South, maintains his dignity despite the suffering and eventual death brought upon him by the cruel treatment of a Yankee overseer.

"In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother, a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South, who made the most enduring mark on the town"--Amazon.com.

The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history (12,500,000 people) and the toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalcuable. Of this amount only an estimted 389,000 people came to the American South, and about 79,000 of those after 1800. Most of the slaves' stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed, critical to an understanding of slavery in the South. Subjects in this book were all natives of West Africa who lived in the American South between 1760 and 1860. They include Elizabeth Cleveland Hardcastle, the mixed-race daughter of an African slave-trading family who invested in South Carolina rice plantations and slaves; Robert Johnson, kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery in Georgia; Dimmock Charlton who bought his freedom after being illegally enslaved in Savahhah; and a group of unidentified Africans who were picked up by a British ship in the Caribbean, and were eventually returned to their homeland. All of these people led exceptional lives, of which slavery was just one part, and show how the slave trade operated and who was involved.

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.