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681) Brother
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
180 pages : 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heartbreaking and profound story about the love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun. Michael and Francis are the bright, ambitious sons of Trinidadian immigrants. Coming of age in The Park, a cluster of houses and towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, the brothers battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them on a daily basis. While Francis...
682) The boys in red hats
Publisher
Shark Dog Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
January 18, 2019: it was the smirk heard round the world. Surrounded by cheering classmates on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., seventeen-year old Nick Sandmann, a student at northern Kentucky's private, affluent Covington Catholic High School, instantly became a global headline, villainized on social media and in the news as he appeared to confront Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder attempting to keep the peace at that...
683) All you have to do
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
411 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
520 In April 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Kevin joins a protest that shuts down his Ivy League campus. In September 1995, amidst controversy over the Million Man...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Hightlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography on Alton Yates, a Black man who served in the Air Force in the 1950s and contributed to key research on flight safety for pilots and passengers. After returning home, Alton dedicated his life to standing against Jim Crow and fighting for racial equality"--
686) The day freedom died: the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1873 Colfax, Louisiana, massacre of sixty former slaves by former Confederate soldiers, and the efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice that ended with a Supreme Court verdict that left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent racists for generations.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Barack Obama's speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches should have represented the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial unity. Yet, in Fracture, MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid shows that, despite the progress we have made, we are still a nation divided--as seen recently in headline-making tragedies such as the killing of Trayvon Martin and the uprisings in...
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
133 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
690) Troublemaker
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
691) This is your time
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color and black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The astonishing story of a unique missionary project -- and the America it embodied -- from historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and "civilization." Its core element was a special school for "heathen youth" drawn...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--
695) Africaville: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, [the novel] depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner--whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 222 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The powerful story of a friendship between two men--one Sikh and one skinhead--that resulted in an outpouring of love and a mission to fight against hate. One Sikh. One former Skinhead. Together, an unusual friendship emerged out of a desire to make a difference. When white supremacist Wade Michael Page murdered six people and wounded four in a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012, Pardeep Kaleka was devastated. The temple leader, now dead, was his father....
698) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[English/Spanish/French subtitled version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Demonstrates how environmental racism influences the racial IQ gap and explains what needs to be done to remedy its effects on marginalized communities.
"From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. This systemic onslaught of toxic exposure and institutional negligence...
Author
Series
Killadelphia volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adams' battle to reshape the United States in his own twisted vision might have been thwarted for now, giving Jimmy Sangster a moment of respite, but the war for a new America rages on! Now, as Abigail steps out of the shadows, she unleashes a new violent terror upon the city some have renamed Killadelphia. But this time, it's about creating as widespread a web of fear imaginable as she rips the beating heart from the city itself. Can Jimmy stop...
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