Mississippi Bridge

About this book

During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • large type books
  • mississippi, fiction
  • prejudices
  • prejudices, fiction
  • race relations
  • race relations, fiction