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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fleming breaks down the origins of racial injustice and its continued impact today. She shares the knowledge and values that unite all antiracists: compassion, solidarity, respect, and courage in the face of adversity. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From the end of the Civil War to the tumultuous issues in America today, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's black boxing champion. Hitler's favorite athlete. And a world at war.
Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and raised in a Detroit ghetto. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world.
In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to a nation of blacks yearning...
Author
Publisher
Viking,an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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"...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As 2020 came to an end there was no shortage of Americans as well as others who welcomed the New Year, hoping life for everyone would improve in 2021. What perhaps worsened the suffering among Americans as well as others was a feeling of helplessness: As people found themselves impacted by the pandemic, the protests over racial inequality, and the terrible fires and weather events that plagued the nation, most people came to the conclusion that there...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
15) King: a life
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. Born in 1938 in Chicago, Diane went on to take command of the Nashville Movement, leading lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful marches. Diane decides to fight not with anger or violence, but with love. With her strong words of truth and actions, she works to stop segregation"--
17) Norvel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norvel Lee was born in 1924 in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. His parents and siblings lived in a rural segregated black community. The family was close-knit, loving, and practical. Education and involvement in the affairs of their rustic church were emphasized. In spite of many obstacles, including Virginia's Jim Crow laws, limited schooling opportunities, and a speech impediment, Norvel went on to achieve remarkable accomplishments in the larger...
18) Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft will not be necessary…If nurses are needed so desperately, why isn't the Army using colored nurses? My arm gets a little sore slinging a shovel or a pick, but then I forget about it when I think about all those boys over in the Solomons. Double Victory tells the stories of African American women who did extraordinary things to help their country during World War II. In these pages, young readers meet...
19) Mirror girls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were separated after the lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in Eureka, Georgia. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors-- the sign of a terrible curse. In Harlem, Charlie's grandmother...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century...
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