Requests: 1
Unequal a story of America
"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"--
| Main Authors: | Dyson, Michael Eric (Author), Favreau, Marc, 1968- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Mary Church Terrell fights back against segregation
- Ida B. Wells exposes America's lynching epidemic
- Buck Franklin bears witness to the destruction of Black Wall Street
- Ned Cobb confronts racial inequality on the job
- Ossian Sweet breaks through the color line to find a home in Detroit
- Pauli Murray discovers the key to ending segregation in schools
- Daisy Myers integrates the white suburbs
- Malcolm X launches a struggle against police brutality
- Fannie Lou Hamer takes back the right to vote
- James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi
- Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis's sanitation workers protest for equal pay
- John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise a fist for Black pride
- Ruth Batson uncovers segregation in Boston
- Michelle Alexander confronts the New Jim Crow
- Barack Obama, Catherine Flowers, and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha expose America's crisis of environmental racism
- Yusuf Salaam battles racial profiling
- Stacey Abrams leads the fight against voter suppression
- Dr. Susan Moore calls out America's unequal health care
- The Black Lives Matter Movement opens the final battle for racial equality
- Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history.