When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book.".
Chronicles the events surrounding the Freedom Riders who were a group of civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, beginning in 1961, to protest segregation in the southern states.
The hillbilly-turned-Manhattanite at the center of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" shares not only the author's philosophy of freedom but also his fears and anxieties. "Other Voices, Other Rooms" begins as thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to rural Alabama to live with his estranged father--who is nowhere to be found.
"Offers 12 different views on post-Civil War America. Each page explores what happened during Reconstruction and how it affected different people, and includes interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images."--Provided by publisher.
"Discusses the Freedom Rides, an important event in the Civil Rights Movement, including the riders who risked their lives, the violence the riders faced, and the successful integration of interstate buses and terminals"--Provided by publisher.
One day in 1905, eleven-year-old Lucius is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck to "borrow" his grandfather's automobile. Ned McCaslin, a Negro, stows away in the car and the three embark on an odyssey which ends at Miss Reba's bordello.
Billie James learns she has inherited her poet father's Mississippi Delta shack thirty years after he died. When she returns to remodel the shack into a rental, she learns from locals that she went missing the day he died, when she was only four years old. As she digs through her father's writings, she uncovers the truth of his death and her disappearance.
