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We are not yet equal understanding our racial divide

"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. 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...

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Main Authors: Anderson, Carol (Author), Bolden, Tonya (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2019.
Edition: Paperback edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > Young adult nonfiction.
African Americans > Politics and government > Young adult nonfiction.
African Americans > Social conditions > Young adult nonfiction.
Whites > United States > Attitudes > History > Young adult nonfiction.
Whites > United States > Politics and government > Young adult nonfiction.
Opposition (Political science) > United States > History > Young adult nonfiction.
Racism > United States > History > Young adult nonfiction.
United States > Race relations > History > Young adult nonfiction.
Adaptations > Young adult.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Nic Stone
  • Prologue
  • "Original sin"
  • "But for your race"
  • Forty acres and a mule
  • Black codes
  • "We showed our hand too soon"
  • "Johnson is with us!"
  • Courting justice
  • Derailing the great migration
  • The sweet ordeal
  • Building toward Brown
  • Beating down Brown
  • The NAACP and Sputnik
  • Rolling back civil rights
  • "Like your whole world depended on it"
  • In the crosshairs: the VRA
  • Beating down Brown (again!)
  • The Reagan revolution
  • Crack
  • "Streets cleared of garbage"
  • Obama
  • Shelby County vs. Holder: gutting the VRA
  • "Why would they try to make people hate us?"
  • Epilogue
  • Discussion guide.

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