immigration

Summary:

Just Like Us offers a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver--two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don't--and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream.

*Special Note*

This book will be the feature of the Friends of the Gordon Cooper Library's upcoming One Book, One Town. Author Helen Thorpe will be in Carbondale on October 13 to speak about this book and the four girls she followed to create it. Learn more.

Summary:

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.