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"In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama. The youngest was thirteen, and all had been hoping to find something better at the end of their journey. But they never arrived. Instead, two white women falsely accused them of rape. The effects were catastrophic for the young men, who came to be known as the Scottsboro Boys. Being accused of raping a white woman in the Jim Crow south almost certainly...
68) The rise: 1967
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Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
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2023.
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"The year 1967 was pivotal to the civil rights movement. In April, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech to thousands inside a New York church condemning the Vietnam War and asking for a peaceful end. In June, the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia would determine whether interracial couples could legally marry in the United States. The five-day long Detroit Riot against the Black community in July would end up being one of the most violent...
69) The rise: 1968
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Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
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2023.
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"The year 1968 was one of progress and loss in the civil rights movement. In February, the Memphis Worker's Strike showed African American men protesting with powerful "I Am a Man" signs. The world stopped in April when Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. That same month, President Johnson expanded the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 by implementing the Fair Housing Act to further prohibit against discrimination. And...
71) The rise: 1978
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Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
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2023.
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English
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"The year 1978 was one of steps toward equality in the civil rights movement. In February, Max Robinson successfully became the first African American broadcast network anchor for ABC news. In June, the Supreme Court case California v. Bakke ruled that affirmative action was legal in the United States and race could be included in the criteria for admissions into colleges and universities. In July, the National Organization of Women coordinated an...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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2021.
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English
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Introduction to Racial Equity -- Track 1. The Trump Card -- Track 2: This Is America -- Track 3: The "Negro Invasion" -- Track 4: Ongoing Historical Trauma -- Track 5: Black Neighborhood Destruction -- Track 6: Make Black Neighborhoods Matter -- Track 7: Healing the Black Butterfly -- Track 8: Outro: Organize!
"This book discusses the long history of the deleterious effects of racial segregation on health in the United States. Author Brown puts Baltimore...
73) The rise: 1970
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Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The year 1970 was one of hope in the civil rights movement in education, politics, and the arts. In January, Dr. Clifton Wharton, Jr., became the first African American president of Michigan State University. The first publication of Essence magazine launched in May, focusing on culture, beauty, fashion, and entertainment for Black women in America. In June, Kenneth Allen Gibson was elected as the first African American mayor of a major Northeast...
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Forefront Books
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[2023]
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English
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Reckoning with Race is a firsthand account of race relations in America from award-winning journalist, author, and former CNN commentator, Rick Allen. Allen's collection of essays shows the progress our country has made—and how much further we have to go. --from Amazon.
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Scholastic
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[2004]
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In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
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