Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"During the Great Migration, a large number of Black Americans relocated when faced with segregation and poor economic conditions. While the places they moved to weren't free from racism, they fought for a better future"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Jim Crow and Policing explores the unjust laws and law enforcement policies Black people have faced in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Introducing a new nonfiction series for the next generation of activists, uncovering the hidden history of the United States through an anti-racist lens. The true story of the discriminatory laws and ideas that affected African American life for generations. In the late nineteenth century, white lawmakers in the United States created a set of policies, collectively called "Jim Crow," that created segregated facilities, like schools and parks, for...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lonnie and his Uncle Bates go back in time to Harlem in the 1920s and meet famous writers, musicians, artists, and athletes-- from Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois to Josephine Baker and Zora Neale Hurston-- and many more who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black working- class citizens to wield their political...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request