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2621) Little Rock nine
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
William makes friends with Thomas, the son of his family's black maid, and they both become involved with an attempt to integrate a high school in their town of Little Rock, Arkansas.
2622) Josephine
Author
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
In his first work since The Plane Story, Kevin Sacco brings us a wordless Civil Rights-era tale of a young boy with a complicated family life who accompanies his family's domestic - Josephine - from his Upper West Side comforts to her neighborhood haunts in Harlem. This journey subtly imbues the boy with a world view as full of blacks, whites and grays as the story's art. At the heart of this narrative is the bond the boy shares with Josephine - until...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Young reader's edition.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a powerful New York Times article that went viral, this young readers' edition tells the uplifting true story of Black men and women from Compton, California, who found purpose through raising and riding horses.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas.
2625) What truth sounds like: RFK, James Baldwin, and our unfinished conversation about race in America
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
A timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's New York Times bestseller Tears We Cannot Stop.
2626) Lizard in a zoot suit
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Southern California, during World War II, twin sisters Flaca and Cuata are harassed by soldiers stationed nearby, but a bigger problem arises when the lost member of an underground species, shaped like a five-foot-tall lizard, needs the sisters' help.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas.
2628) Indian no more
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Regina must find out: Who is Regina Petit? Is she Indian? Is she American? And will she and her family ever be okay?
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
2630) Stuck rubber baby
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
25th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He's aware of the raqcial injustice all around him - the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members - but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines. Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists,...
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