Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

Chronicles the ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, and how they are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. "The Watsons are a fine family to spend two hours with..."--Hollywood Reporter

Dramatizes the final days of the lives of three civil rights leaders who, in 1964, traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration and were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader.