race relations

Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and the major persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses.

Presents profiles of ten African-American women whose efforts on behalf of racial justice and freedom have influenced the course of history.

A biography of the Alabama woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

Two African-American girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.

The author introduces the concept of race as only one component in an individual's or nation's "story.".

Tells the true story of Ruby Bridges, who at age six became the first African-American to attend an all-white school in New Orleans.

Contains three story paths which allow the reader to explore the people and events of the U.S. civil rights movement from the perspectives of a Freedom Rider, a protester in Birmingham, Alabama, and a resident of Little Rock, Arkansas. Includes a timeline and resources for further study.

In 1904, twelve-year-old Orphelia follows her dream by running away from home to join an all-black minstrel show headed for the Saint Louis World's Fair, and learns about her family's troubled past in the process.

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Simple text and photographs introduce the life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a journalist who wrote about and spoke against the unfair treatment of African Americans.