Books like To Kill a Mockingbird
A lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, as seen through the eyes of his young daughter.
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Kin
Vernice and Annie, two motherless girls who grew up as best friends in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, take very different paths through the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, Vernice to Spelman College in Atlanta and a world of privilege, Annie in search of the mother who left her.
The Secret Life of Bees
In 1964 South Carolina a fourteen-year-old white girl runs off with her black housekeeper to a pink house kept by three beekeeping sisters who know the secret of her dead mother.
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.
A Time to Kill
A small-town Mississippi lawyer takes the case of a black father who killed the two white men who raped his daughter, and the Klan starts showing up in the parking lot.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In 1933 Mississippi, nine-year-old Cassie Logan and her family, Black landowners determined to keep their land, face the cruelty of segregation and the night riders, and Cassie learns what it costs her parents to stand firm.
Ellen Foster
Eleven-year-old Ellen tells how she got through her mother's death and her father's neglect in rural North Carolina, and how she went looking for a new family and took its name.
Go Set a Watchman
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch comes home from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s for her annual visit and discovers that her father Atticus, and the town that raised her, are not what she believed.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou's Stamps, Arkansas childhood under Jim Crow, the pastor-grandmother's store, the trauma that silenced her, and the teacher who taught her back into language.
A Lesson Before Dying
In 1940s Louisiana a young Black teacher is asked to visit a man sentenced to death for a killing he did not commit, so that he can face the electric chair as a man rather than as what his own lawyer called him.
Black Boy
Richard Wright's memoir of growing up hungry and defiant in the Jim Crow South, in Mississippi, Arkansas and Memphis, and of the books that convinced him there was a way out.
The Help
In 1962 Jackson a young white graduate secretly co-writes a book with the black maids of her friends, and Mississippi is exactly as dangerous about it as you would expect.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.