race relations

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Roll of thunder, hear my cry

1976
An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children don't understand.

I am Rosa Parks

1997
Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in 1955, tells why she decided it was time to take a stand against segregation, and discusses the impact of her actions on the Civil Rights movement.

The friendship

1987
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.

Mississippi bridge

1990
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.

Rosa Parks

meet a civil rights hero
2004
A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.

Rosa

2005
Presents an illustrated account of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and the subsequent bus boycott by the black community.
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