Race relations

The White Separatist Movement

This book explores the beliefs and activities of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, and such late twentieth-century white supremacist extremist groups as the Christian Identity movement.

Race relations, Racism, United States, White supremacy movements

Dreams From My Father

Barack Obama

Barack Obama tells the story of his life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother, searching for a workable meaning to his life as an African American.

African Americans, Biography, Obama, Barack, Race relations, Racially mixed people

Black and White

Paul Volponi

Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.

African Americans, Basketball, fiction, High schools, Juvenile delinquency

America

E. R. Frank

America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything teenage boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.

Emotionally disturbed children, fiction, Race relations

A Heart Divided

Cherie Bennett

When sixteen-year-old Kate, an aspiring playwright, moves from New Jersey to attend high school in the South, she becomes embroiled in a controversy to remove the school's Confederate flag symbol.

Confederate States of America, fiction, Flags, High schools, Moving

The Land

Mildred D. Taylor

After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.

African Americans, fiction, Prejudices, Race relations, Racially mixed people

We Shall Overcome

Reggie Finlayson

Uses the words of spirituals and other music of the time to frame a discussion of the civil rights movement in the United States, focusing on specific people, incidents, and court cases.

African Americans, Civil rights movements, History, Race relations, Songs

Examines the history of the Canadian province's ethnic conflict as French-speakers have struggled to preserve their cultural, religious, and ethnic identity in an English-speaking country and how that

Canada, History, Politics and government, Quebec (Province), Race relations

Rosa Parks

Douglas Brinkley

Profiles Rosa Parks, who, in 1955 Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, and thereby sparked the bus boycott that made Martin Luther King, Jr., famous and helpe

1913-, African American women civil rights workers, African Americans, Biography, Civil rights workers