Unequal
A Story of America
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022, ©2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Mary Church Terrell fights back against segregation -- Ida B. Wells exposes America's lynching epidemic -- Buck Franklin bears witness to the destruction of Black Wall Street -- Ned Cobb confronts racial inequality on the job -- Ossian Sweet breaks through the color line to find a home in Detroit -- Pauli Murray discovers the key to ending segregation in schools -- Daisy Myers integrates the white suburbs -- Malcolm X launches a struggle against police brutality -- Fannie Lou Hamer takes back the right to vote -- James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi -- Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis's sanitation workers protest for equal pay -- John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise a fist for Black pride -- Ruth Batson uncovers segregation in Boston -- Michelle Alexander confronts the New Jim Crow -- Barack Obama, Catherine Flowers, and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha expose America's crisis of environmental racism -- Yusuf Salaam battles racial profiling -- Stacey Abrams leads the fight against voter suppression -- Dr. Susan Moore calls out America's unequal health care -- The Black Lives Matter Movement opens the final battle for racial equality -- Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations.
Target Audience: Ages 12 & up
ISBN:
9780759557017
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T SOCIAL SCI Dys | Sandhills Indoors | Teen Nonfiction | In |
T SOCIAL SCI Dys | Southeast | Teen Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.