southern states

Eighteen-year-old Sawyer accepts her estranged grandmother's bribe to live with her for a year, participate in the debutante season and ball, and possibly meet the father she has never known.

Explores the events surrounding the race riots of Tulsa, Oklahoma during the early twentieth-century.

Discusses the student activist movement of 1961 known as the Freedom Rides.

"Describes Reconstruction in the Southern US states after the Civil War and resistance to the reforms, leading to the rise of Jim Crow laws"--Provided by publisher.

A book for middle school students about the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.

"Describes the social and political differences between the American North and South that lead to the secession of eleven states, the formation of the Confederate States of America, and the start of the American Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

Chronicles the life and career of African American author Richard Wright, who wrote about racial discrimination and injustice in the mid-1900s.

Presents the author's experiences after dying his skin and moving to the American South to experience what it was like being Black.

Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.