from the back cover: Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, foll…
from the back cover: Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who …
When six year old Euby Bridges entered school in November 1960, she stepped straight into history. Selected to become one of the first African American students to attend a previously white only public elementary school, Ruby finds that kindergarten is anything but easy. She is met by an angry mob on the first day of school and abandoned in class as protesting parents remove their children from…
This humorously written and informative pamphlet has been designed for teachers to use when addresing the subject of racism with young people.'