Amy Hill Hearth (pronounced HARTH) is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her topics include women's history, forgotten stories and elder wisdom. Her tenth book, STREETCAR TO JUSTICE: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York, will be published in January 2018 by Greenwillow/HarperCollins. A little-known benchmark in the struggle for equality in the United States, STREETCAR TO JUSTICE is a true story suitable for middle-grade to adult readers. Ms. Hearth's earlier books include HAVING OUR SAY: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years, a New York Times bestseller for more than two years that was adapted for Broadway and for an award-winning film. HAVING OUR SAY, called a classic oral history by Newsweek magazine, is the story of two centenarian sisters whose father was born into slavery. Hearth's other nonfiction books include the story of a pair of married Holocaust survivors who masqueraded as Christians and worked for the Underground during World War II, and a rare oral history of a female Native American elder whose name was "Strong Medicine." Ms. Hearth is also the author of two historical novels published by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster: MISS DREAMSVILLE AND THE COLLIER COUNTY WOMEN'S LITERARY SOCIETY (2012) and MISS DREAMSVILLE AND THE LOST HEIRESS OF COLLIER COUNTY (2015). The novels explore the tensions of life in a small, sleepy town in Florida in the early 1960s.

Books by Amy Hill Hearth

Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York

by Amy Hill Hearth - African American Interest, Biography, Children's 8-12, Children's Nonfiction, History, Human Rights, Nonfiction, Prejudice , Racism, Social Issues