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This adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's "Stamped From the Beginning" explores the history of racist ideas in America by examining the lives of notable historical figures, from Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis. Discusses how racist ideas spread and how they are also discredited.
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How do we know about the thousands of people who marched in campaigns for civil rights for African Americans in the 1960s? Where did they march and what happened to them? This book shows how we know about the marchers and their experiences from primary and other sources. It includes information on some historical detective work that has taken place, using documentary and oral evidence, that has enabled historians to piece together the fascinating...
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Antiracist Books for Children-Elmahaba Center Instagram Live May 2022
Nashville Reads 2024 | The Works of Jason Reynolds
Antiracist Books for Children-Elmahaba Center Instagram Live May 2022
Nashville Reads 2024 | The Works of Jason Reynolds
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"A chapter book adaptation of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning "Stamped from the Beginning"--
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Discusses the shooting of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and explores the history of police brutality in the United States. Examines the national and global response to his death. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a timeline, a glossary, and additional resources.
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Explores the history of the Black Lives Matter movement which protests needless killings of persons of color by law enforcement officers. Highlights high-profile cases and documents Black Lives Matter protest responses. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a glossary, and additional resources.
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Discusses racial discrimination and provides contemporary examples. Presents advice on confronting this type of discrimination and starting change in one's schools and communities. Includes sidebars, common myths and facts, a glossary, and resources for further information.
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Discusses discrimination faced by immigrants, and provides contemporary examples. Presents advice on confronting this type of discrimination and starting change in one's schools and communities. Includes sidebars, common myths and facts, a glossary, and resources for further information.
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Explores the Black Lives Matter movement which protests needless killings of persons of color by law enforcement officers. Highlights high-profile cases and documents Black Lives Matter protest responses. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a glossary, and additional resources.
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Examines the history of the civil rights movement from it's start in the 1950s with the fight to end segregation through today's battle to stop inequality and violence against minorities. Includes a timeline, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
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"This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most...
14) I'm still here
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"An adaptation of the powerful, New York Times bestselling account of growing up Black and female in America, completely rewritten with new stories for young readers. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with race in America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to trick future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means...