| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mary Church Terrell fights back against segregation -- Ida B. Wells exposes America's lynching epidemic -- Buck Franklin bears witness to the destruction of Black Wall Street -- Ned Cobb confronts racial inequality on the job -- Ossian Sweet breaks through the color line to find a home in Detroit -- Pauli Murray discovers the key to ending segregation in schools -- Daisy Myers integrates the white suburbs -- Malcolm X launches a struggle against police brutality -- Fannie Lou Hamer takes back the right to vote -- James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis's sanitation workers protest for equal pay -- John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise a fist for Black pride -- Ruth Batson uncovers segregation in Boston -- Michelle Alexander confronts the New Jim Crow -- Barack Obama, Catherine Flowers, and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha expose America's crisis of environmental racism -- Yusuf Salaam battles racial profiling -- Stacey Abrams leads the fight against voter suppression -- Dr. Susan Moore calls out America's unequal health care -- The Black Lives Matter Movement opens the final battle for racial equality -- Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history. |
| Summary |
"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Audience |
Ages 12 & up Little, Brown and Company |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Young adult literature.
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Young adult literature.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Young adult literature.
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United States -- Race relations -- Young adult literature.
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| Added Author |
Favreau, Marc, 1968- author.
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| ISBN |
9780759557017 (hardcover) : $18.99 |
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0759557012 (hardcover) |
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