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21) The Loving story
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
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 case, fully aware of the challenges posed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor on June 12, 1967 and resulted in sixteen states being ordered to overturn their bans...
22) Saga: volume 3
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traveling to a cosmic lighthouse on planet Quietus in order to find their literary hero, new parents Marko and Alana are chased by a host of pursuers.
23) Monsoon summer
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"By the award-winning author of East of the Sun, an epic love story moving from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhausted from nursing soldiers during the Second World War, escapes to Wickam Farm where her friend is setting up a charity sending midwives to the Moonstone Home in South India. Then Kit meets Anto, an Indian...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into exile in England, banned from his own country. His crime? To fall in love and marry a young, white English girl, Ruth Williams. Delving into newly released records, Susan Williams tells Seretse and Ruth's...
26) A united kingdom
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
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
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. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
28) In the fall
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An interracial relationship between a Union soldier from Vermont and a runaway slave at the end of the Civil War initiates a haunting family legacy of war, racism, and secrets that follows three generations from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies"--Page 4 of cover.
30) A united kingdom
Publisher
Fox Video
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
a"Set in 1920s New York, an addictively readable, thoroughly entertaining historical novel involving sex and secrets, race and redemption, and power and privilege—based on a sensational real-life case that made international headlines—in which the marriage between a working-class black woman and the scion of one of America’s most powerful white families ends in a scandalous annulment lawsuit. When Alice Jones, a blue-color woman with at least...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Pub. Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill now sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multi-generational saga. Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century, when such mixed marriages proliferated, to the first half...
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 4
Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An American Princess comes the true story of an unconventional family divided by war and prejudice during WWII. When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was missing in family history. Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame...
36) Saga: Volume six
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 6
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After a dramatic time jump, Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In White Fright, acclaimed historian Jane Dailey offers a radical reinterpretation of the fight for African American rights, showing how that fight has been closely bound, both in terms of law and in the white imagination, to the question of interracial sex and marriage. White fear of black sexuality not only fueled the systems of exclusion and oppression under Jim Crow, she contends it was also a central factor driving white resistance to the civil...
Author
Series
Midnight series (Sister Souljah) volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
"Sister Souljah, the New York Times bestselling author of The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight, delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet. With Midnight and The Meaning of Love, Souljah brings to her millions of fans an adventure about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it. Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained...
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe" -- pages [4] of cover.
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