In "The Friendship," four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. In "The Gold Cadillac," two African American girls living in the North are proud of their father's new Cadillac until they take it on a vacation to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.
year: 1989, 1996
call number/section: 1000
subjects: race relations, fiction, african americans, prejudices, southern states, race relations, fiction, short stories
Editions
Taylor, Mildred D
Bantam (1989)
In "The Friendship," four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. In "The Gold Cadillac," two African American girls living in the North are proud of their father's new Cadillac until they take it on a vacation to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.
Schools: 11
Taylor, Mildred D
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers (1996)
These two stories tell of growing up black in America, one in the North and one in the South.
Schools: 0