Richard Wright, the famed author, loved to read but was prevented because of racist Jim Crow laws to use the public library. This true story shows how Wright enlisted the help of a white co-workers to make his dream of reading a reality.
A fresh and original look at the Montgomery Bus boycott of the mid-1950s and Rosa Park's role in it. The book also introduces other important events of the Civil Rights Movement.
This picture book tells the story of Ruby Bridges, who, when she was six years old, was the only African-American student to attend a previously all-white school in New Orleans in 1960. Every day for months she had to walk past angry crowds of adults protesting her presence. This book tells the story of Bridges's first year at this school.
