Southern States

A Heart Divided

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

Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desp

Adult child sexual abuse victims, African American women, Domestic fiction, Epistolary fiction, fiction

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

Black Voices From Reconstruction, 1865-1877

John David Smith

Original source documents are woven into a narrative providing the experiences and points of view of former slaves during the long process of Reconstruction following the Civil War.

1863-1877, Afro-Americans, History, Reconstruction, Sources

973.049
SMI

Myths and Realities

Carl Bridenbaugh

Colonial period, Intellectual life, Social life and customs, Southern States

973.2
BRI

My Soul Is Rested

Howell Raines

Afro-Americans, Civil rights, Civil rights workers, Interviews, Southern States

323.4
RAI

Indians of the Southeast: Then and Now

Jesse Clifton Burt

Describes the origin, history, and cultures of the Indians of the southeastern United States from prehistoric times to the present.

Indians of North America, Southern States, YA literature

970.4
BUR

Three Who Dared

Tom Cohen

Describes the activities of three young men who risked their lives to participate in the Freedom Marches and Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960's.

1932-, Afro-Americans, Aronson, Henry M, Civil rights, O'Neal, John

323.4
COH