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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
4) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh and embrace life after over 100 years of living side by side. Their sharp memories show readers the post-reconstruction south and Booker T. Washington; Harlem's Golden age and Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois and Paul Robeson. Bessie breaks barriers to become...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move. On top of all that, Evvie's magic abilities are growing stronger by the day. Her family calls it jubilation--a gift passed down from generations of black women since the time of slavery. And as Evvie's talents...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"192 pages jam packed with outstanding black and white and color photos of this time many of us remember. Provides an insight of the best of time, icons of the era, living the good life, the Red threat, dream machines, equal rights, TV, sports, entertainment and much, much more. If you remember S & H Green Stamps, Erector Sets, pink Cadillacs, fallout shelters, Sputnik, and dancing Old Gold Packs, you'll appreciate this winner"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...