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English
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"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at...
Author
Series
America's recent past volume 2
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the history of race relations in the United States, focusing on the civil rights movement that began in 1954 with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation in public schools.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Uses the words of spirituals and other music of the time to frame a discussion of the civil rights movement in the United States, focusing on specific people, incidents, and court cases.
11) As good as anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march towards freedom
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The story of two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable friendship and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a message of love and equality for all.
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting civil rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers, including James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam,...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Combining his reflections on growing up in a middle-class suburb with the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, the rise of the religious right and our environmental crisis, the author reveals how reclaiming the good parts of our shared legacy will tell a truer American story.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal"...
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A collection of personal reflections, stories and poems of 10 well-known children's authors, who were themselves young people in 1954 when the Supreme Court handed down the decision to desegregate public schools. Their varied experiences and viewpoints offer a window to that period in our history.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
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