segregation

Provides an account of events in 1957 when the Wechslers, a white, Jewish, communist family, secretly arranged for the Myerses, an African-American family, to buy a home in Levittown, Pennsylvania, a suburb designed to help people achieve the American dream, but which was planned for whites only.

Unsure about her upcoming marriage and eager to see what lies beyond the walls of Prague's Jewish quarter in 1778, fifteen-year-old Rivka Lieberman takes great risks to venture outside, where her many new experiences include friendship with a Christian boy.

Explains the history of the struggle for equal education in the United States and how the case Brown v. Board of Education and came to be and what impact it made.

Tells the life story of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, describing her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, the resulting Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, and her later years.

"Provides a comprehensive account of the legal drama that established the 'separate but equal' doctrine. Details the postwar Reconstruction era; the legal issues involved in Plessy v. Ferguson; the spread of discriminatory Jim Crow laws; the effects of segregation on African Americans; and the efforts to overturn Plessy. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a brief history of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was intended to provide all U.S. citizens with equal rights against discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Explores the events surrounding the Plessy v. Ferguson legal case, which centered around Homer Adolph Plessy, a man of mixed race, seating himself in an all-white train car. Discusses how the Plessy v. Ferguson case reflected issues of race in the late nineteenth century and outlines the impact of this case's ruling.

In 1953, Leah Hopper dreams of leaving the poverty and segregation of her home in Sulphur, Louisiana, and when Aunt Olivia sends train tickets to Los Angeles as part of her tenth birthday present, Leah gets a first taste of freedom.

Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.

Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.