Eight teenagers who fled from Ethiopia and Rwanda tell how they got to America and Canada only to receive more prejudicial treatment.
Imagine being asked to be one of the first black students to integrate an all-white school in the Fifties.
Mae and Matthew Carter want something more for their children than life on the cotton fields, so they decide to send 7 of their 13 children to an all-white school for a better education when Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed in Sunflower
In 1972, President Ida Amin had a dream that he believed was a message from God. Based on that dream, this dictator decides to eliminate all foreign Indians — the "Jews of Uganda" — in 90 days.
Originally written in German, this English translation sets the stage for a contemporary controversy that could erupt in any unsuspecting family of German descent.
Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Hava Aaronson is an Orthodox Jew who lives an unorthodox lifestyle in the world of punk.
Piri, now 17, resides with a Swedish family while she searches for news of family and friends who also might have survived the Nazi concentration camps.
This book examines the treatment of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II by the U.S. government.
Lily is looking forward to spending another summer at her family's vacation home with her grandmother on the shore in Rockaway, New York, when her father drops the news that he must go to Europe with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II.
This is Mary Matsuda's memoir beginning when she was 16 years old.