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The new Jim Crow
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Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander |
This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race… |
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Who was Rosa Parks?
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Stephen Marchesi,Yona Zeldis McDonough |
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "… |
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Jamaica's Find
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Juanita Havill,Teresa Mlawer,Anne Sibley O'Brien |
A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home. |
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The Harlem Hellfighters
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Max Brooks,Caanan White |
"From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters. The Harlem Hellfighters is a fictionalized account… |
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Jazz
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Toni Morrison |
It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one... At la… |
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