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We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide  Cover Image E-book E-book

We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide

Summary: "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 was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump. This YA adaptation will be written in an approachable narrative style that provides teen readers with additional context to these historic moments, photographs and archival images, and additional backmatter and resources for teens."--Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781547600762
  • ISBN: 1547600780
  • ISBN: 9781547600786
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
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  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, [2018]

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Formatted Contents Note: 21 Shelby County v. Holder : Gutting the VRA22 "Why Would They Try to Make People Hate Us?"; Epilogue; Discussion Guide; For Further Reading; Notes; Photograph Credits; Index; eCopyright.
Target Audience Note:
Grades 7-8.
Ages 12-18.
Source of Description Note:
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Subject: African Americans Civil rights History Juvenile literature
African Americans Politics and government Juvenile literature
African Americans Social conditions Juvenile literature
Whites United States Attitudes History Juvenile literature
Whites United States Politics and government Juvenile literature
Opposition (Political science) United States History Juvenile literature
Racism United States History Juvenile literature
United States Race relations History Juvenile literature
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION United States History General
Civil rights
Opposition (Political science)
Politics and government
Race relations
Racism
Social conditions
Whites Attitudes
Whites Politics and government
United States
Genre: Juvenile works.
History.
Electronic books.

Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of many books and articles, including Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 andEyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights: 1944-1955. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tonya Bolden is a critically acclaimed award-winning author/co-author/editor of more than two dozen books for young people. They include Crossing Ebeneezer Creek, which received five starred reviews; Finding Family which received two starred reviews and was a Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year; Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, a Coretta Scott King honor book and James Madison Book Award winner; MLK: Journey of a King, winner of a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty, an ALSC Notable Children's Book, CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and winner of the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Middle Level Book Award. Tonya also received the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award. A Princeton University magna cum laude baccalaureate with a master's degree from Columbia University, Tonya lives in New York City.
www.tonyaboldenbooks.com

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