Out of Darkness Social Science Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies Slavery History Modern - 18th Century Age Range: High school -

Age Range:   High school - Adult

” Emancipation was followed by one hundred more years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope

That leave only one person with the ability to save the city: Amber

and Kevin Costner

Out of Darkness Social Science Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies Slavery History Modern - 18th Century Age Range: High school -Out of Darkness is a work of historical young adult fiction, loosely based on an actual school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937. Ashley Hope Perez has taken the explosion as her backdrop and imagined a diverse cast of characters whose broken lives are utterly captivating and tragically entangled with the school and the explosion. The central story is that of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black. It's a