Friendship / Gold Cadillac

Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s; and two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.Two stories tell about the black experience in the South, through the eyes of two black families, one from the North, the other from the South


Genre: Children's Fiction