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English
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Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Anita Hemmings, the first African American student at Vassar College, is successfully passing as white, but is confronted by her wealthy roommate who threatens to reveal Anita's secret after she becomes infatuated with Anita's brother.
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English
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Sophie Heller and her family emigrated from Germany to the small town of Victory, Illinois, well before WWII began. But now that the war has deeply affected the town, local residents are beginning to turn a cold shoulder toward them. Then tragedy strikes when a train is derailed, and the Heller family is unfairly blamed. With paranoia and discrimination threatening to destroy the once peaceful town, the handsome teacher from the high school gallantly
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the hours leading up to the scheduled execution of a black teen for the alleged rape of a white woman in 1943 Louisiana, the convicted boy, his father, the District Attorney, and other townspeople consider what the execution means to their community.
11) Race and the law
Author
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This book traces the intersection of race and the law from America's earliest days, through the era of slavery, the civil rights movement, and into the twenty-first century. It addresses various points-of-view and key players in the public discourse, with a clear summary of positions, as well as contemporary opinions from across the political and cultural spectrums.
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A professor at Princeton University makes the case that multiple forces have conspired to deepen the impoverishment of black communities, crystallizing the untenable position of Black America and offering thoughts on a better way forward.
13) You matter to me
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Adopted from the shelter, Biscuit the dog realizes that some people in the neighborhood are scared by his owner because he is Black and wishes they would see his human as he does--with love"--
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Searching for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather decades ago, Meghan Mackenzie, the youngest reporter at the Detroit Free Press, spurred by the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, travels to Birmingham where she uncovers secrets that put her own life in danger.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored,...
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