In Midnight Without a Moon, Linda Williams Jackson considers the civil-rights movement through the eyes of a feisty teenage girl
…comes down from Saint Louis. Now a card-carrying NAACP member, Belle epitomizes the education and mobility Rose craves, but also the danger of demanding civil rights. Rose’s tyrannical grandmother makes…
Adrienne Berard’s Water Tossing Boulders looks at the American civil-rights movement through a new lens
…Amendment. Guided by Katherine’s drive and persistence, the family stitched themselves into Rosedale’s fabric, attending a church and enrolling all three children in the local public school: They would learn…
Crystal Sanders explains how federal anti-poverty programs figured in the civil-rights movement
…March on Washington was for freedom and jobs. While dismantling segregation and enfranchising African Americans were central goals of the civil-rights movement, economic opportunity was also on activists’ radars. Social…
In The Second Mrs. Hockaday, Susan Rivers has created an original Civil War tale
…Loosely based on a real incident Rivers discovered at her local library, the novel tells the tale of Placidia Hockaday, the pampered, feisty seventeen-year-old daughter of a South Carolina plantation…
“Forward My Brave Boys!” is the surprisingly readable diary of a Confederate regiment
…horrible, during the war. Ralph Bowden, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, has worked as an electrical engineer, history professor, home builder, alternative-energy consultant, and technical…
Civil-rights hero—and National Book Award-winner—John Lewis talks with Chapter 16
On November 16, John Lewis—along with his collaborators, co-author Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell—won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature with March: Book Three, the third installment…
