social conditions

Chronicles the 1838-1839 forced relocation of the Cherokee nation off their lands in the South to Oklahoma and the over 4,000 Native Americans who perished along the way.

Depicts the joys and hardships experienced by a Muslim family that immigrates to New York City from Alexandria, Egypt, in the hope of making a better life for themselves.

Explores the rich and diverse cultures as the Native Americans evolved from their origins to the present, including the Pueblos, the Hopi, the Navajo, the Innu, and the Sioux.

Text and photographs depict children from many countries at work and play. Includes a Dutch boy in a festival and children at school in India.

Describes, in graphic novel format, the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s when dust storms raged across the heartland of the United States.

Readers will discover that life on the homefront during the American Revolution brought profound changes particularly for women and for some American slaves. Also, readers will discover that it was a time of great social change and more freedom.

Provides an introduction to the contributions of women during America's revolutionary period, the fight for educational reform and the recognition of legal and educational rights for women, and short profiles of people involved in the movement.

Chronicle of the culture and students of New York's Lexington School for the Deaf, providing an intimate portrait of the world and culture of the deaf.

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

Examines the link between the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., discussing how the strike, the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and the labor protests all laid the foundations for what many consider to be King's greatest speech, given just days before he was killed, and how that speech and King's death influenced the end of the strike.