Fiction about Civil Rights and Race Relations |
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- Askew, Rilla. Fire in Beulah, 2001. [FICT ASKEW RILLA Fire in]
- The relationship between a white woman and her black maid during the Tulsa race riot of 1921.
- Baldwin, James. Another Country, [FICT BALDWIN, JAMES Another]
- Eight people become entangled in a web of interpersonal relationships, doomed to become as savage and destructive as the society which oppresses them.
- Bigsby, C. W. E. Beautiful Dreamer, 2006. [FICT BIGSBY CHRISTOP Beautifu]
- A violent and harrowing Faulknerian tale of race relations in Tennessee in the early part of the century.
- French, Albert. Billy, 1993. [FICT FRENCH, ALBERT Billy]
- An anonymous observer narrates the tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee, a black boy who is convicted and executed for the murder of a white girl in Barnes, Mississippi in the 1930s.
- Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1972. [YPBK J]
- A dying woman of 110 years of age reminisces about her childhood on a plantation when both Confederate and Union soldiers arrived.
- Gaines, Ernest J. A Gathering of Old Men , 1983. [FICT GAINES ERNEST J. Gatherin]
- Sheriff Mapes tries to identify the killer of a white Cajun farmer when both a white overseer and a group of black farmers all claim responsibility.
- Gaines, Ernest J. In My Father's House , 1978. [FICT GAINES, ERNEST J. In my fa]
- The arrival of a newcomer results in confrontation with the Rev. Philip Martin, the town's most respected black man.
- Himes, Chester B. If He Hollers Let Him Go, 1986. [FICT HIMES CHESTER If he]
- Robert Jones, a charming, educated black man, enjoys the comfort and privileges of middle class life until an embittered white woman accuses him of rape.
- Johnson, Charles. Middle Passage, [FICT JOHNSON CHARLES Middle]
- A newly freed slave in New Orleans stows away on an Africa bound slave ship.
- Lester, Julius. And All Our Wounds Forgiven, 1994. [FICT LESTER JULIUS And all]
- Fictional recreation of the 1960s civil rights movement and Martin Luther King's personal struggle with his role as leader.
- Naslund, Sena Jeter. Four Spirits, 2003 [FICT NASLUND SENA Four]
- In 1960s Alabama a sheltered white college student participates in a freedom movement and finds her life changed when she develops friendships with local African Americans.
- Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner , 1967. [FICT STYRON WILLIAM Confessi]
- A fictional examination of the mind of the man who led the most violent slave rebellion in American history.
- Toomer, Jean. Cane , 1923. [FICT TOOMER JEAN Cane]
- Often credited with being the first major work of the Harlem Renaissance, these stories and poems explore issues of race and identity in the 1920s.
- Wright, Richard. Native Son, 1940. [FICT WRIGHT RICHARD Works v.1]
- One of the most powerful novels about racism in America. The novel traces the fall of a young black man in 1930s Chicago as his life loses all hope of redemption after he kills a white woman.
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