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"Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jeffernson High School ... Linda Hairston is the daughter of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration ... Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another"--Jacket.
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Harvard historical studies volume 138
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story of the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville--and shows how we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening. When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone on the afternoon of the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, he was sure Donald Trump would do the right thing as president: condemn the white supremacists who'd descended on the college town and who'd...
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American social experience volume 36
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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UNIV OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation - rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black and Native American from white. Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers...
16) Seeing red
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red's desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
17) Dismissing the peculiar institution: assessing slavery in Page and Rockingham Counties, Virginia
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[Page County Heritage Association]
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
18) Hey, White girl
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Atmosphere Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In the summer of Woodstock and the Moon landing, a traditional Virginia town forces its Black and White students to cross the city and integrate the schools, unraveling the predictable white path of the Randolph children and the plans their parents had for them. Nell Randolph tries to make the best of her first year of high school at a black school. Her mother is unnerved by the changes she sees in Nell and arranges for her to transfer to a private...
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