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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation--the...
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[2010]
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Black History Month - Children
Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
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When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book."
3) Glory be
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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 it.
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"What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today"--
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[2009]
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One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
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"On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place...
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2019.
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"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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[2015]
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From the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800's to the efforts to stop segregation in the 1900's, this program chronicles the civil rights movement in America. Viewers will learn about the courageous leaders of the civil rights movement who led the fight for freedom and fairness for all Americans.
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Black History Children 2022
Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (Gr. 3-5)
Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (Gr. 3-5)
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"Millie danced to jazz in her Italian neighborhood. Pedro danced to Latin songs in his Puerto Rican neighborhood. It was the 1940s in New York City, and they were forbidden to dance together . . . until first a band and then a ballroom broke the rules. Machito and His Afro-Cubans hit the scene with a brand-new sound, blending jazz trumpets and saxophones with Latin maracas and congas creating Latin jazz, music for the head, the heart, and the hips....
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Black History Month - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Native American Heritage Month - Tweens
Women's History - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Native American Heritage Month - Tweens
Women's History - Tweens
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Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
13) Lunch-box dream
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Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
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[2012]
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"Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination--but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case"--Provided by publisher.
15) Reconstruction
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"Presents information regarding the Reconstruction years of 1866 to 1876, including background information and important events, people, and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students"--Provided by publisher.
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