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• An African American Dilemma

  a History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North

  Burkholder, Zoë,

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  Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only-or even always the dominant-civil rights strategy. At times, African…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Racism in Kansas City

  a Short History

  Griffin, G. S.

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  Kansas Citians, like so many others across the nation, wonder, "Could it happen here?" The answer lies in this study of Kansas City's darkest moments-slavery, the border war, the Civil War, bombings of black homes, lynchings, the segregation of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hattiesburg

  An American City in Black and White

  Sturkey, William,

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  In this rich multigenerational saga of race and family in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, William Sturkey reveals the personal stories behind the men and women who struggled to uphold their southern "way of life" against the threat of desegregation, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues

  Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls

  Morris, Monique W., 1972-

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  Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues reimagines what education might look like if schools placed the thriving of Black and Brown girls at their center. Morris brings together research and real life in this chorus of interviews, case studies, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Young, Gifted and Diverse

  Origins of the New Black Elite

  Charles, Camille Zubrinsky, 1965-

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  Contemporary research on Black Americans has focused mainly on the plight of the poor and paid little attention to internal variation and status differentiation in the broader Black community. In Divergent Currents, the authors explore the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Separate Is Never Equal

  Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

  Tonatiuh, Duncan,

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  Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Without Separation

  Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez

  Brimner, Larry Dane,

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  The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.

• Together

  An Inspiring Response to the "separate-but-equal" Supreme Court Decision That Divided America

  Nathan, Amy,

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  Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not Yet Equal

  Understanding Our Racial Divide

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)

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  When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unequal

  a Story of America

  Dyson, Michael Eric,

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  Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality.

• The Long Ride

  Budhos, Marina Tamar,

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  In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.

• The Doll Test

  Choosing Equality

  Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

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  Narrated by dolls, this book tells the little-known story of two Black psychologists, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, who used Black and white dolls in their research about the effects of school segregation on children.

• White Rage

  the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)

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  Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Haste to Rise

  a Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim Crow

  Pilgrim, David, 1959-

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  They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses -- and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. They excelled in their studies and became accomplished…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dream Town

  Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity

  Meckler, Laura,

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  In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing integration. And beginning in the seventies, it was known as a crown jewel in the national move to racially integrate schools. The school district built a national reputation for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Negroes at Harvard

  the Class of 1963 and the Eighteen Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

  Garrett, Kent,

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  The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, an early…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown V. Board of Education Mural at the Capitol

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  A television program about the painting of the mural in the Capitol building of Kansas and what the 1954 Supreme Court decision meant.

• The First Step

  How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

  Goodman, Susan E., 1952-

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  The inspiring story of four-year-old Sarah Roberts, the first African American girl to try to integrate a white school, and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion.

• The Best of Enemies

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  Based on a true story, the film centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard

  Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

  Ewing, Eve L.

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  If these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing's answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches…Read moreRead more of this annotation