Focuses on the experiences of African-American soldiers in the Vietnam War, experiences that reflected and amplified the struggle for civil rights in America during this same time period.

A picture book that celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-in at the lunch counter at Woolworth's as a protest against segregation.

A biography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the major leagues, as told by his daughter.

Examines the laws and customs known as "Jim Crow" and discusses how this system of legalized segregation affected American society in the one hundred years following the Civil War.

Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called to the scene of the murder of a young, dark-skinned boy found frozen to the ground in the garden of a block of Reykjavik apartments and his investigation exposes tensions beneath the surface of Iceland's multicultural society and forces him to confront a tragedy from his own past.

In their own words, a variety of teenagers from South Africa talk about their years growing up under apartheid, and about the changes now occuring in their country.

A biography of the journalist, newspaper owner, and suffragette who campaigned for civil rights and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.