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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
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Language
English
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Description
"Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation -- that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation -- the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments -- that actually promoted...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Traces the African American experience from emancipation to the Civil Rights era, discussing the contributions of African American leaders, the emergence of the black middle class and the intellectual elite, and the origins of the NAACP.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Seldom does a book have the impact of The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been the winner of numerous awards and has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been cited in judicial decisions, read in countless faith-based and secular book clubs, and adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads. Most important, it has inspired artists, philanthropists, policymakers, community leaders, and a...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The California Newsreel Collection features the best fims from their library. Included in the collection are impactul films such as Race - The Power of an Illusion, Black Gold, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, and others. California Newsreel produces cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences.
Author
Publisher
Verso Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Tells the true story of Jackie Robinson's battle against prejudice while serving in the military during World War II, covering his court-martial for refusing to move to the back of an integrated bus.
11) Claudette Colvin
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Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin made the same choice. She insisted on standing up--or in her case, sitting down--for what was right, and in doing so, fought for equality, fairness, and justice."-- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Though not as widely known as other basketball legends, hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of the game's all-time greatest players--an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. A member of the early, scrappy NBA and one of the first professional African American players, Elgin (b. 1934) played in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, taking risks on and off the court. Known for his acrobatic style...
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Traces the struggles of African Americans from the end of slavery through the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South, to the civil rights movement and legal equality.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated. How did a lunch counter become a symbol of civil rights?...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Investigates segregation practices in the northern sections of twentieth-century America revealing how racial exclusion and oppression persisted into the contemporary era, in an account that challenges modern beliefs about race and racism.
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the struggles following the Civil War to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery--known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat Woman"--enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was...
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