| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-333) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue. A note to readers. -- 1. Mary Church Terrell fights back against segregation -- 2. Ida B. Wells exposes America's lynching epidemic -- 3. Buck Franklin bears witness to the destruction of Black Wall Street -- 4. Ned Cobb confronts racial inequality at work -- 5. Dr. Ossian Sweet breaks through the color line to find a home in Detroit -- 6. Pauli Murray discovers the key to ending segregation in schools -- 7. Daisy Myers integrates the white suburbs -- 8. Malcolm X launches a struggle against police brutality -- 9. Fannie Lou Hamer takes back the right to vote -- 10. James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi -- 11. Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis's sanitation workers protest for equal pay -- 12. John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise a fist for Black Pride -- 13. Ruth Batson uncovers segregation in Boston -- 14. Michelle Alexander confronts the New Jim Crow -- 15. Catherine Flowers, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, and Barack Obama expose America's crisis of environmental racism -- 16. Yusef Salaam battles racial profiling -- 17. Stacey Abrams leads the fight against voter suppression -- 18. Dr. Susan Moore calls out America's unequal health care -- 19. Black Lives Matter Movement opens the latest battle for racial equality -- 20. Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history -- Afterword. Story of inequality in America. |
| Summary |
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 |
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The true story of racial inequality - and resistance to it - is the prologue to our twenty-first century present. The authors deliver a gripping chronicle of the struggles that shaped modern America through the stories of some of the many African American people who dared to fight for a more equal future. Inequality persists - but there are many paths to resist. -- Adapted from jacket. |
| Audience |
Ages 12 & up Little, Brown and Company. |
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Grades 7-12. |
| Awards |
YALSA Nonfiction Award finalist, 2023. |
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School Library Journal Best Books, 2022. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Civil rights workers. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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Civil rights movements. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Favreau, Marc, 1968- author.
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| Cover Title |
Un equal : a story of America |
| ISBN |
9780759557017 hardcover |
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0759557012 hardcover |
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9780759557024 electronic book |
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0759557020 electronic book |
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