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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American...
1525) The Force
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beginning in 2014, this film chronicles two years with the Oakland Police Department, which, in 2003, was put under federal oversight for misconduct and civil rights abuses. Relations between the department and the community are explored in the wake of nationally publicized police shootings and the advent of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
"Sprawling, immediate, and complex, Peter Nicks's verité documentary moves like a pulsing, timely thriller....
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
""One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders" (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly to make America one nation. Never Forget Our People Were...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Description
Explores how the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of Dr. King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.
1529) Rosa's bus
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
The story of an ordinary bus--until a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat which became a pivotal event in the Civil Rights movement. Follows the bus's history from the streets of Montgomery to the Henry Ford Museum.
1530) Underground: Season two
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Drawing from his own experiences, DeRay Mckesson, the civil rights activist and organizer, offers ways for all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to take responsibility for imagining and building a better world"--
1532) The last negroes at Harvard: the class of 1963 and the 18 young men who changed Harvard forever
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages cm
Description
"The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, began to reconnect with his classmates...
1533) The forgotten girl
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Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The first book of nonfiction from an award-winning poet combines memoir, theory and criticism to find common purpose between Black and indigenous peoples and reflects on the new meanings of silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom and ecstasy"--
Author
Formats
Description
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey,first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Description
Bayard Rustin believed that every human being deserves respect and dignity. As a child he was taught that we all have a duty to stand up to prejudice and discrimination, and that conflict must be resolved through peaceful, nonviolent means. And so, Bayard began to peacefully resist--in high school he was arrested for sitting in the "whites only" section of his hometown movie theater--no matter the consequences. Bayard Rustin grew up to become one...
1537) All the fighting parts
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Description
In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
1538) More than rivals: a championship game and a friendship that moved a town beyond black and white
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Formats
Description
"The true story of a friendship between two high school basketball players, one black and one white, that diffused the highly charged racial tensions in a small Southern town during the late 1960s"--Provided by publisher.
1539) Technically yours
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Pearl Harris has learned the hard way to be careful in work and in love. When she is appointed acting director of OurCode, a nonprofit aimed at inspiring high schoolers to code, she has a chance to make lasting change for the organization, but a scandal has put their reputation at risk. Further complicating matters, Pearl didn't expect the one man she hasn't stopped thinking about in seven years to be the newest member of her board of directors....
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation."--Page [4] of cover.
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