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We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide

Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine), author, Bolden, Tonya, author, Stone, Nic, writer of foreword

2018

Overview

\"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.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• 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. / African Americans Civil rights History. / African Americans Politics and government. / African Americans Social conditions. / Whites United States Attitudes History. / Whites United States Politics and government. / Opposition (Political science) United States History. / Racism United States History. / United States Race relations History Juvenile literature. / United States Race relations History.
• ISBN: 9781547600762

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E185.61.A5437 2018	1	BOOK	YOUNG