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2018.
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English
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Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
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"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...
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"As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage, ' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames, ' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time...
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