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81) Map of Ireland
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, the first year of busing in Boston, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Ann Ahern's lesbianism, which has isolated her from other white students, draws her to her African French teacher and leads her to insights into Blacks' struggles in the post-Civil Rights era.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Rosa Parks played an instrumental role in the integration of Montgomery, Alabama, buses, and in the reemergence of the black community's fight for equal rights. Referred to as the 'mother of the civil rights movement,' Parks stood up for what she believed in and proved that one person can make a difference."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board--will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One day, she was sent to a small town in Tennessee, in the...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The civil rights movement was also a struggle for economic justice, one that until now has not had its own history. Sharing the Prize demonstrates the significant material gains black southerners made--in improved job opportunities, quality of education, and health care--from the 1960s to the 1970s and beyond. Because black advances did not come at the expense of southern whites, Gavin Wright argues, the civil rights struggle was that rarest of social...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In post-World War II America, when professional football owners scheduled exhibition games in the South and later placed franchises, they simply overlooked Jim Crow conditions endured by African American players. To Live and Play in Dixie is an oral history from the players themselves on how they battled discrimination while playing and living in the still-segregated South"--
90) Levittown: two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America's legendary suburb
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who is black, and Wendell, who is white, are brought together by an old dog that is clearly seeking something or someone, but they not only face prejudice, they find trouble at a haunted cabin in the woods.
95) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and accomplishments of Rosa Parks, as well as her impact on the civil rights movement.
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