A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
Thurow, Roger
2012
Documents the story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger to secure better opportunities for their families, illuminating their challenges while explaining the necessity of improving Africa's agriculture sector.
The author recalls his poverty-stricken youth in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, focusing on the extraordinary efforts of his mother to protect her sons from the violence of their father, a man scarred by war, and telling of the sacrifices she made so her children could have a better life.
a tale of race and restless youth in the rural South
Hemphill, Paul
2000
Reveals why Little River, Alabama, experienced racial violence in 1997, including the murder of a black man, an attack on a white storekeeper, and the burning of two black churches by white teens.
Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration
Hahn, Steven
2003
Explores how African Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people and became central figures in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building.
