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Step by Step
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Bertie Bowman |
A great American story of an ordinary man who is living an extraordinary life, Step by Step is the inspiring personal account of Bertie Bowman's remarkable rise from farmer's son in the Jim Crow Sout… |
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Social scientists for social justice
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John P. Jackson |
Kenneth Clark's demonstration that Black children preferred white dolls to black ones was one of many studies to show the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. Clark and other… |
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Infectious fear
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Samuel Roberts |
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of … |
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Breach of peace
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Eric Etheridge |
In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans -- blacks and whites, men and women -- converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they … |
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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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The big sort
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Bill Bishop |
America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. We've built a country where we can… |
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Langston Hughes
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Patricia McKissack,Fredrick L. McKissack |
Simple text and illustrations describe the life of the Harlem poet whose work gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America. |
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Mary Church Terrell
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Patricia McKissack,Fredrick McKissack |
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of this civil rights activist. |
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Young Martin's Promise
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Walter Dean Myers,Alex Haley |
Young Martin’s Promise is the story of a young Martin Luther King, Jr., and his slow awakening to the existence of segregation. As a child, Martin experiences discrimination that would motivate his e… |
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Life under the Jim Crow laws
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George, Charles |
Discusses the background and effects of the Jim Crow laws that were enacted after the Civil War to keep the races segregated. |
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Fight against fear
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Clive Webb |
"In the uneasily shared history of Jews and blacks in America, the struggle for civil rights in the South may be the least understood episode. Fight against Fear is the first book to focus on Jews an… |
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The summer we got saved
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Pat Cunningham Devoto |
Three residents of a small Southern town find their lives forever changed as they face the issue of integration in the 1960s. |
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Grandmama's song
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Margaree King Mitchell |
An eight-year-old girl accompanies her grandmother on a singing tour of the segregated South, both of them knowing that Grandmama's songs have the power to bring people together. |
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Redemption
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Nicholas Lemann |
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. Jour… |
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The air between us
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Deborah Johnson |
Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking" is not unlike most Southern towns in the sixties. Black people live on one side of town and whites live on the other. The two rarely m… |
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The starplace
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Vicki Grove |
Thirteen-year-old Frannie learns hard lessons about prejudice and segregation when she becomes friends with a young black girl who moves into her small Oklahoma town in 1961. |
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Caleb's wars
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David L. Dudley |
Fifteen-year-old Caleb's courageous commitment to justice grows as he faces a power struggle with his father, fights to keep both his temper and self-respect in dealing with whites, and puzzles over … |
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Glory be
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Augusta Scattergood |
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating i… |
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Davis, Thomas J. |
"More than the story of one man's case, this book tells the story of entire generations of people marked as "mixed race" in America amid slavery and its aftermath, and being officially denied their m… |
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The Ravine
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James Williamson |
A compelling story, "The Ravine" evokes the South during the early years of the Civil Rights movement where a complex mixture of love and hate, ignorance and enlightenment, and guilt and innocence co… |
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