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Birmingham, 1963 Birmingham, 1963 Carole Boston Weatherford,Jack Garrett,Lizzie Cooper Davis,Carole Boston Weatherford A poetic tribute to the victims of the racially motivated church bombing that served as a seminal event in the struggle for civil rights. In 1963, the eyes of the world were on Birmingham, Alabama, a… OL15070660W
Shine Shine Lauren Myracle When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town. OL16261093W
LIE LIE Caroline Bock Told in several voices, a group of Long Island high school seniors conspire to protect eighteen-year-old Jimmy after he brutally assaults two Salvadoran immigrants, until they begin to see the moral … OL16307864W
Patriot acts Patriot acts Alia Malek,Karen Korematsu In eighteen oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to … OL16471769W
October mourning October mourning Lesléa Newman,Lesléa Newman On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left t… OL16652623W
The Book of Matt The Book of Matt Stephen Jiminez What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humaniz… OL17932613W
Viral hate Viral hate Abraham H. Foxman Revealing how the anonymous nature of the Internet is enabling the unchecked spread of bigotry, bullying, and other hate-based vitriol, explores the working examples of social media companies while o… OL18185626W
Racial Violence on Trial Racial Violence on Trial Christopher Waldrep The Civil War ended slavery, but not the brutal legacy of racism in the United States. As we've seen from the persistence of groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi skinheads, police brutality, and… OL1834520W
Bad blood Bad blood Brian McGilloway "A young man is found in a riverside park, his head bashed in with a rock. The only clue to his identity is an admission stamp for the local gay club. DS Lucy Black is called in to investigate. As Lu… OL19717452W
Hate crimes in cyberspace Hate crimes in cyberspace Danielle Keats Citron The author examines the controversies surrounding cyber-harassment, arguing that it should be considered a matter for civil rights law and that social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged … OL19989319W
Violence Against Queer People Violence Against Queer People Doug Meyer "Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community--white, middle class men--and larg… OL20027367W
All we have left All we have left Wendy Mills Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left follows two girls, Alia and Jesse, who discover that hatred and love have the power to reverberate into the future. OL20034845W
Tell no tales Tell no tales Eva Dolan DS Ferreira and DI Zigic are called in from the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit to handle the investigation but with another major case on their hands, one with disturbing Neo-Nazi overtones, they are … OL20858353W
Enemy in the garden Enemy in the garden Harriet Pike Nora Miller, a nominal Jew, fits right into her suburban town. She buys upscale food, chauffeurs her two children to sports’ teams, plays tennis and goes sailing with her church-going friends. Her pe… OL22059211W
The Forgotten The Forgotten Faye Kellerman As unofficial caretaker of her small store-front synagogue, Rina Lazarus is shocked when it is desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and Nazi death-camp photographs, and even thought the police have … OL24265715W
American women against violence American women against violence Joyce Goldenstern Profiles ten American women from different regions, ethnic backgrounds, and times who are working or have worked against violence. OL2691778W
The grace of guilt The grace of guilt Gareth Young When fifteen-year-old Jessica Jackson's crush on her pastor's son leads to rape, she finds herself pregnant and rejected by her family and church. When Simon Cassell's homosexual relationship is disc… OL27059978W
Bigotry Bigotry Debbie Levy Presents a historical view of causes and effects of stereotypes, hate groups, hate crimes, and the legal and other methods used to combat them, with emphasis on recent incidents in the United States. OL465585W
Incident at Howard Beach Incident at Howard Beach Charles J. Hynes Late on the night of December 19, 1986, four black men were driving through the all-white community of Howard Beach, in the New York City borough of Queens, when their car broke down. By the early ho… OL4796839W
Hate Crimes (Contemporary World Issues) Hate Crimes (Contemporary World Issues) Donald Altschiller Since the September 11 terrorist attacks there has been an increase in both the number of hate crimes and the amount of literature on the topic. The FBI issues an annual statistical listing of bias-r… OL9035658W
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