Found 4,863 results for "Segregation"
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a da...
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my...
The Color of Law
by Richard Rothstein
WHEN, FROM 2014 TO 2016, riots in places like Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee, or Charlotte captured our attention, most ...
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
For more than one hundred years, scholars have written about the illusory nature of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Soul on ice
by Eldridge Cleaver, E. Cleaver
Nineteen fifty-four, when I was eighteen years old, is held to be a crucial turning point in the history of the Afro-Ame...
The marrow of tradition
by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Though only a twenty-three-year-old African American school principal in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he made thes...
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
by Judy Blume
"Can I have another jelly sandwich?"
Beekeeper's Apprentice
by Laurie R. King, Jenny Sterlin
I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, a...
Nigger
by Dick Gregory
It's a sad and beautiful feeling to walk home slow on Christmas Eve after you've been out hustling all day, shining shoe...
Rosa Parks
by Rosa Parks
One evening in early December 1955 I was sit in the front seat of the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.