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Provides an account of the racially-motivated bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, which resulted in the deaths of four children, and discusses how the tragedy spurred the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights legislation.

A history of the Ku Klux Klan founded in 1866 by six young men in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Describes the September 1963 bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan that left four young girls dead and several injured, the rise of the Klan after the Civil War, and the civil rights movement.

A group of Long Island high school seniors conspire to protect Jimmy after he brutally assaults two Salvadoran immigrants, until they see the moral implications of Jimmy's actions and the consequences of being loyal to a bully.

Presents a collection of writings on topics related to hate groups, militias, and terrorism, discussing white supremacy, Lyndon LaRouce, racism, anti-government sentiment, government terrorist tactics, and legal questions about the control of such activities.

Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.

Examines the events surrounding the 1998 dragging and murder of a forty-nine-year-old African-American man in Jasper, Texas.

Guides readers through white supremacy movements in the United States, examining how they are able to persist in spite of general favor of racial equality.

Chronicles the events surrounding the trial of Kenneth Mieske, a white racists accussed of killing an Ethiopian, and discusses how the incident uncovered the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.

In the American Book Award-winning We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer shows that this is the latest in a series of recent racial flash points, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan.

This timely book offers a critical examination of issues in the headlines concerning racial bias, crime, and police violence.

A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.

In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till.

Informative charts and discussion encourage readers to think critically about the way people’s biases can dictate their behavior in ways that harm others.

Angered by the death of his father, Derek Vinyard turns to white supremacy, ends up in prison, and vows to reform himself only to be released on good behavior to find his little brother picking up the life that he had left behind.