THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou ◆ Memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Angelou revisits a childhood divided among homes, shaped by Southern segregation and the struggle to speak.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor ◆ Fiction Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Cassie Logan watches her Mississippi family defend the land and independence they have worked to hold.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 James D. Anderson ◆ History The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 James D. Anderson A study of who built, financed, and contested Black education across the post-emancipation South.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson ◆ History The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson Three lives trace the distinct routes and consequences of the Great Migration.
THE LYRICREADING COLLECTION Trouble in Mind Leon F. Litwack ◆ History Trouble in Mind Leon F. Litwack Oral histories and contemporary records trace how Black Southerners lived through the rise of Jim Crow.
