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In 1948 most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South.
Escorted through the South's parallel black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers,...
Escorted through the South's parallel black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers,...
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On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family's black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there - cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father's rages and her mother's benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally. Bright and curious,...
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2017.
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Meet Ottie Lee Henshaw, a startling, challenging beauty in small-town Indiana. Quick of mind, she navigates a stifling marriage, a lecherous boss, and -- on one day in the summer of 1930 -- an odyssey across the countryside to witness a dark and fearful celebration. Meet Calla Destry, a determined young woman desperate to escape the violence of her town and to find the lover who has promised her a new life. On this day, the countryside of Jim Crow-era...
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Acorn Media
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[2020]
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English
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Timely and entertaining, this 'feel-good' (New York Times) British drama from the writers of Shameless follows the raucous happenings at a racially integrated school. In Series 3, headmistress Mandy (Jo Joyner, EastEnders) deals with a hotheaded new teacher (Robert James-Collier, Downton Abbey), while star student Nasreen (Amy-Leigh Hickman) applies to Oxford.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2016.
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"On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place...
13) The reckoning
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"Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son--a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, and committed a shocking crime. Pete's only statement about it--to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family--was: 'I have nothing to say.' He was not afraid of...
14) Black like me
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"In the Deep South of the 1950s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to John Howard Griffin, from the outside and within himself, as he made his way through the...
16) Night on fire
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Billie Sims comes face to face with the horrors of racism when a group calling themselves the Freedom Riders travels through Anniston to protest segregation on buses. The town greets the Freedom Riders with violence and sets their bus on fire. Billie is left shocked by the actions of the town's people she thought she knew. Will Billie stand up and fight for what is right?
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Publisher Annotation: Sixth-grader Lu Olivera just wants to keep her head down and get along with everyone in her class. Trouble is, Lu?s old friends have been changing lately ? acting boy crazy and making snide remarks about Lu?s newfound talent for running track. Lu?s secret hope for a new friend is fellow runner Belinda Gresham, but in 1970 Red Grove, Alabama, blacks and whites don?t mix. As segregationist ex-governor George Wallace ramps up his...
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The New Press
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2017.
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English
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"Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education -- today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars -- there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized by levels of school segregation the country has not seen since the mid-twentieth century, cultural critic and American studies professor Noliwe Rooks provides...
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