The rock and the river

Kekla Magoon First published 2009

About this book

In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • black panther party
  • brothers
  • brothers and sisters, fiction
  • children's fiction
  • civil rights
  • civil rights movements
  • civil rights movements, fiction
  • family, fiction
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • race relations, fiction
  • racism
  • united states
  • united states, history, 20th century, fiction