social conditions

Explores life in an American inner city through the lives of two boys.

Presents an introduction the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.

A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.

Describes the hardships endured by the pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony during the winter of 1620-21, their first on American soil.

Children living in Great Britain and the United States at the beginning of each century between 1000 and 2000 A.D. describe their lifestyle at the time.

Traces the life of the journalist, focusing on her lifelong fight to stop lynching and to bring the nation's attention to the injustices suffered by blacks. Illustrated with black and white period photographs.

Describes the lives of children in fifty-one cities across the United States, providing historical information about each selection as well as details about the ethnic groups, languages, and cultural activities of the cities.

Text and photographs from countries around the world illustrate some of the activities children everywhere have in common.