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Unequal : a story of America

By Dyson, Michael Eric, author.
Favreau, Marc, 1968- author.

Genre Biographies.

Audience Teens 14-17 years

Published 2022 by Little, Brown and Company, New York

ISBN 9780759557017

Bib Id 1163859

Edition First edition.

Description pages ; cm

More Details

Leader

cam a22 8i 4500

LCCN

2021-058473

ISBN

9780759557017 (hardcover) $19.00

0759557012

Call #

323.1196 D

Author

Dyson, Michael Eric, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93018968

Title

Unequal : a story of America

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

2022 by Little, Brown and Company, New York :

Description

pages ; cm

Note

Includes index.

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.

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"--

Audience

Ages 12 & up

Subject

African Americans--Civil rights--Juvenile literature.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

United States--Race relations--Juvenile literature.

Genre/Form

Biographies

Added Author

Favreau, Marc, 1968- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004108728