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This New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” (Sports Illustrated).
At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals, single-handedly falsifying Hitler’s...
At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals, single-handedly falsifying Hitler’s...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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An anthology of previously uncollected essays, originally published in "The New Yorker, " reflects the work of the eminent journalist's early career and traces his witness to the fledgling years of desegregation in Georgia.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
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384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare. They have been attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate. Now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman, a resident of the small town of Charleston, Miss., offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School under one condition: the prom must be racially integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008 he offered again, and the offer was accepted, changing the tradition of two separate proms for blacks and whites that had endured since the high school was integrated in 1970. Shows the problems and lessons learned as...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions-those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies...
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals. The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world's prisoners--a total of over 2 million people. This number continues to steadily rise. Over the past 40 years, the number of people...
11) We were brothers
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English
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"Preeminent illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men. Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents, were raised in the same small Tennessee community where they slept in the same bedroom and were poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older,...
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from...
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Orbis Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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xxviii, 212 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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For over fifty years, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., a Baptist minister, activist, and organizer, has worked for civil rights, peace, and the promise of true democracy. From his years in the Civil Rights movement, his work as founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and as an international ambassador for human rights, he has left an indelible impression on the history of our time.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"In the summer of 1963, [Peggy] was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students from entering the University of Alabama. This man, former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace, was notorious for his hateful rhetoric and his political stunts. But he was also a larger-than-life father to young Peggy, who was taught to smile, sit straight, and not speak up...
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