southern states

Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.

Young Ovella rejoices as her community comes together to raise money and build a much-needed school in the 1920s, with matching funds from the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company and support from Professor James of the Normal School.

An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children don't understand.

A biography of the wealthy Spanish explorer who became the first white man to cross the Mississippi.