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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When people go to Johannesburg, they do not come back. 'Cry, the Beloved Country' is the moving story of two families in South Africa - one black and one white - who are brought into violent contact. From a remote valley in Natal, Reverend Kumalo sets off for the city of Johannesburg in search of his younger sister and his son.
42) The other side
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
43) Sankofa
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
44) Sour land
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
For Anson Stone and his three motherless children, the quiet black man who enters their lives as teacher and friend fills a lonely void but also brings home a tragic reality.
48) Paperboy
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
49) Till
Publisher
Orion Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobleyâ‚‚s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamieâ‚‚s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a motherâ‚‚s ability to change the world.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fifteen years August Sitwell has worked for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family who plucked him from an orphan asylum and gave him a job. The groundskeeper is part of the household's all-black staff, along with "Miss Mamie," the talented cook, pretty new maid Jennie Williams, and three young kitchen apprentices - the latest orphan boys Mr. Barclay has taken in to "civilize" - boys like August. But the Barclays fortunes have fallen, and their...
Author
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Separated from their mother by the harsh social and economic conditions prevalent among blacks in South Africa, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother make a journey of over 300 kilometers to find her in Johannesburg.
54) Dear Martin
Author
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
55) Saving Savannah
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
Author
Language
English
Description
After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? Two sisters on the run--one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trails. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him. --Adapted from...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"At eight years old, Raeford "Junebug" Hurley has known more than his share of hard lessons. After the sudden death of his parents, he goes to live with his grandparents on a farm surrounded by tobacco fields and lonesome woods. There he meets Fancy Stroud and her twin brother, Lightning, the children of black sharecroppers on a neighboring farm. As years pass, the friendship between Junebug and bright, compassionate Fancy takes on a deeper intensity....
59) Yo! Yes?
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.
60) The jacket
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.