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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated biography of the man who broke baseball's color barrier and changed the way Americans viewed equality in sports.
"Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. He could run, leap, and throw better than any other kid around. But he lived at a time when the rules weren't fair to African Americans: Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie...
Author
Publisher
Hatchette Books
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
254 p.
Language
English
Description
"Get the right care for your body -- and avoid treatments that can endanger women -- with this important manual from a physician who is a leading expert on sex and gender medicine. Sex Matters tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women's health care today: all models of medical research and practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and emotional differences between men and women -- an omission...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages.
Language
English
Description
"Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a "brilliant, well-documented" celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches...
24) The wage gap
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the issue of gender gap from the viewpoints of whether it is due to discrimination between men and women, whether a wage gap between rich and poor is harmful, and whether a wage gap among races is problematic for society.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
288 p.
Language
English
Description
If you think sexism thrives only on Wall Street or in Hollywood, you haven&;t visited a lab, a science department, a research foundation, or a biotech firm.
Rita Colwell is one of the top scientists in America: the groundbreaking microbiologist who discovered how cholera survives between epidemics and the former head of the National Science Foundation. But when she first applied for a graduate fellowship in bacteriology, she was told, &;We don&;t...
26) Just Mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation--the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments--that actually promoted the discriminatory...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics -- and their impact on people of color -- are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman, Jr. weighs the tragic role that some African Americans themselves played in escalating the war on crime.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence as their trip progressed.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South.Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated United States, sixteen black men and two black women are torn between boycotting the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany or participating. If they go, they would represent a country...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago"--Provided by publisher.
Series
Reference shelf volume Volume 88, no.1
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
xiv, 198 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses varying viewpoints of race from the aspects of racial representation and fictionalization in American media, the modern American dream, and a new era of civil rights challenges.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron—a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston—and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over. Featuring the players’ fascinating stories and original photographs.
Cam Perron...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
495 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard , and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled by extraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern times. The Profession is the story of that career in full....
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvi, 254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel-he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated, he...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On July 7, 2016, hundreds of protesters gathered in Dallas after the shooting of two black men-Philando Castile and Alton Sterling-by white policemen. One hundred Dallas police officers stood guard. At around nine p.m., a gunman opened fire into the line of officers from behind. Five were killed and a dozen more injured. Senior Cpl. Larry Gordon, a black twenty-one year department veteran, managed to keep the shooter talking, in part by bonding with...
Author
Publisher
Small, Maynard & Company
Pub. Date
1899
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Written in 1899 by Booker T. Washington, an American educator, orator, and advisor to several United States presidents, The Future of the American Negro outlines Washington's ideas on the history of African-American people and their need for education in order to advance themselves within society. Putting emphasis on the concept of industrial education, a term that encompasses learning the necessary functions of becoming a valuable member of society...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xvii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the Promised Land challenges the reader to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King's legacy and move toward his vision of "the Promised Land" in our own time.