David's Story
Despite the racial prejudice and injustice of the South in the early 1900s, the Logans share their well water with both white and African-American people until it is poisoned by vicious neighbors.
KEY: jP = Picture Books; jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers; jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers; JF = 5th Grade and Up
| Coleman, Evelyn | WHITE SOCKS ONLY Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi. |
1996 | unpaged |
| Evans, Freddi Williams | A BUS OF OUR OWN Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mable Jean and the other black children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them like the white children have. Based on real events in Mississippi. 1949. |
2001 | unpaged |
| McKissack, Patricia | GOIN' SOMEPLACE SPECIAL In segregate 1950's Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library. |
2001 | unpaged |
| Miller, William | THE BUS RIDE A black child protests an unjust law in this story loosly based on Rosa Parks' historic decision not to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. |
1998 | unpaged |
| Yezerski, Thomas | TOGETHER IN PINECONE PATCH A girl from Ireland and a boy from Poland overcome the prejudices held by the residents of the small American town to which they have emigrated. Pennsylvania possibly early 1900's. |
1994 | unpaged |
| English, Karen | FRANCIE 1940's Alabama. When the 16-year-old boy whom she tutors in reading is accused of attempting to murder a white man, Francie gets herself in serious trouble for her efforts at friendship. |
1999 | 199 p. |
| Fuqua, Jonathon Scott | DARBY In 1926, 9-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality. |
2002 | 238 p. |
| Meyer, Carolyn | WHITE LILACS In 1921, in Dillon, Texas, 12-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. |
1993 | 242 p. |
| Rinaldi, Ann | THE EDUCATION OF MARY A LITTLE MISS OF COLOR, 1832 In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school. |
2000 | 243 p. |
| Taylor, Mildred | THE FRIENDSHIP Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930's. |
1987 | 53 p. |
| Taylor, Mildred | MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE During a heavy rainstorm in 1930's rural Mississippi, a 10- year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee Creek. |
1990 | 62 p. |
| Taylor, Mildred | THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS In 1941, a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severly injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state. |
1990 | 290 p. |
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Taylor, Mildred | THE WELL David's Story Despite the racial prejudice and injustice of the South in the early 1900s, the Logans share their well water with both white and African-American people until it is poisoned by vicious neighbors. |
1995 | 92 p. |