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Author
Publisher
In-Your-Hand Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century, a former slave homesteads property on the Minnesota River, and with his white wife raises a family without incident, but when a murder is committed, his sons are put on trial and the latent racism in the community begins to surface.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton's Clay Creek ranch. Soon after arriving, he and Whit Barnett ride out on a search party and find the body of old Ross Guilford. Both get fired when foreman Paul Kelso picks a fight with ranch hand Willard Brumley and Dunbar intervenes. Asking around, Dunbar learns that Guilford knew something about Brumley's wife, a beautiful woman of color who disappeared twenty...
4) Loving
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Virginia interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving who, in 1958, were sentenced to prison for getting married.
5) In the fall
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey Lent's astonishing debut novel, In the Fall, is already creating a sensation. It has been chosen as a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, preempted for paperback for six figures, and acquired by leading publishers around the world. In the Fall is the extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the forbidden, transcendent love affairs that fuel its members over the...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple whose fight for equality resulted in Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and his fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. Later, the newlyweds were arrested, tried and convicted of the felony crime of miscegenation. Two young ACLU lawyers took on the Lovings...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the...
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