Revealing the methods successful black students employ to achieve greatness, Sight: Unveiling Black Student Achievement and the Meaning of Hope gives positive perspectives from a markedly difficult environment.
The answers in this examination replace despondence with optimism and provide educators, parents and students with stategies of hope.
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In 2007, a court case originally filed in Louisville, Kentucky, was argued before the Supreme Court and officially ended the era of school desegregation - both changing how schools across America handle race and undermining the most important civil rights cases of the last century. Of course, this wasn't the first federal lawsuit to challenge school desegregation. But it was the first - and only - one brought by African Americans.
By reframing how we commonly understand race, education, and the history of desegregation, author Sarah Garland deftly and sensitively tells the stories of the families and individuals who fought for and against desegregation, creating a timely and deeply relevant work in Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation. Divided We Fail will be an important contribution to the continued struggle toward true racial equality.
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Dr. Sampson Davis writes of the healthcare crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: from that of a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up, and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day.
Living and Dying in Brick City: An E.R. Doctor Returns Home presents a narrative exploration of the health-care crisis in inner-city communities using the author's experiences as an emergency room resident in the Newark community in an account that illuminates the complicated human realities behind the statistics.
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In this essential reading, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family comes together for the first time to share their reflections and memories of the great civil rights leader.
Included in Martin Luther King Jr.: contributions from his sister (the only surviving member of his immediate family), his children, his in-laws, his nieces and nephews, and even his grandchildren, who, although they never met him, explain what his legacy means to them.
Edited by Angela Farris Watkins, this is a personal and loving portrait that incorporates previously unpublished photographs and new images of the National Mall memorial.
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Paul Robeson was a towering figure in American culture, conquering many disparate venues from football to film and law to Shakespeare.
An extraordinary athlete-scholar-actory-singer, Robeson also became a crusader for humand rights.
In Robeson, author Arnold H. Lubasch chronicles the remarkable life of this 20th-century original, detailing the highs and lows of Robeson's life and career. Lubasch offers several personal anecdotes about this American icon, and includes commentary on the 100th-anniversary celebration of Robeson's birth.
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On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in the nation's history.
His words, paired with the Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson's magnificent paintings, make I Have a Dream a picture book certain to be treasured by children and adults alike.
This 50th anniversary tribute to the civil rights leader also includes a CD of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his famous speech.
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Award-winning artist Bryan Collier and writer Jabari Asim capture the hardship and the spirit of one of the most inspiring figures in American history.
For readers ages 9 to 12, Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington brings to life Booker T. Washington's journey to learn, to read and to realize a dream.
A biography of the former slave and inspiring educator describes the hardships he overcame in youth, the circumstances that challenged his efforts to learn how to read, and his triumphant pursuit of a college education.
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With forewords by Coretta Scott King and the Reverend Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings is a volume of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s best-known homilies.
As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love. A Gift of Love includes those classic sermons, along with two new preachings.
Collectively, they present King's fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
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With a foreword by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, In a Single Garment of Destiny: A Global Vision of Justice is the first book to treat Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s positions on global liberation struggles through the prism of his own words and activities.
King emerges not only as an advocate for global human rights, but also as a towering figure who collaborated with Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert J. Luthuli, Thich Nhat Hanh and others in addressing a multitude of issues with which we still struggle today.
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For the first time, on sale April 2, one of America's most celebrated writers shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother.
In Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou, the celebrated author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, shares the intimate story of her relationship with her mother, a first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines and a purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, relating the events that prompted her mother to send young Angela away and the complicated fallout that shaped their family life.
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Throughout the years, the city of Baltimore has played host to many well-known figures, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and boxer Joe Louis; the city has been called home by Billie Holiday, Frederick Douglas, and Thurgood Marshall. But it is the local African-American community's members, working diligently to advance and empower themselves, who made history while they lived it.
In Baltimore, authors Philip J. Merrill and Uluaipou-O-Malo Aiono have not only documented the well-known visitors and residents of Maryland's largest city but the everyday life of its African-American citizens before and after desegregation.
This compilation of well-researched photographs and other memorabilia, part of the Black America Series, will take readers on an enjoyable journey through the unique African-American story that belongs to Baltimore.
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In this unbelievable true story, witness the charming, real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa.
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Charmed an African Village has the sweetness and quirkiness of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and the hopeful sense of possibility of Half the Sky.
King Peggy documents the story of how an American secretary was declared the monarch of a small fishing village on Ghana's central coast, recounting the challenges she faced in improving local circumstances, providing education and countering regional corruption.
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From the perspective of his daughters, The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill: The Untold Story of Arthur Shores and His Family's Fight for Civil Rights chronicles the life of the civil rights attorney Arthur Shores who, with his family, came under attack by the KKK in the 1960s for representing desegregation cases, the NAACP and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Written by Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores with Denise George, the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara growing up with their father during the 1960s in the south Birmingham district tell an incredible story of a family's unfair suffering, but also of their sacrificial commitment, courage, determination and triumph.
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In a four volume encyclopedia edited by Angela Doolin, this encyclopedia covers all of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean and addresses broad themes critical to understanding the texture of the cultures and achievements that have marked African-American history.
Written in accessible language, Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Ed. is an essential addition to any reference library. Find it online at $595.
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From teen pregnancy to athletics, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show the realities.
As African American Families Today: Myths and Realities, co-written by authors Earl Smith and Angela Hattery, shows, racial inequality persists - we're clearly not in a post-racial society.
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In a reinforced book for young adults, Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.
Courage Has No Color showcases the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought in a little-known attack on the American West by the Japanese.
The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks is the definitive political biography of Rosa Parks.
Author Jeanne Theoharis examines Rosa Parks' six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement.
"In the first sweeping history of Parks's life, Theoharis shows us that Parks not only sat down on the bus, but stood on the right side of justice for her entire life," said Julian Bond, chairman emeritus, NAACP.
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In this breathtaking and gorgeous children's story, the dynamic duo of writer Joyce Carol Thomas and illustrator Floyd Cooper capture the anticipation and thrill of a girl on the brink of her new life.
In In the Land of Milk and Honey, a young girl journeys by train from Oklahoma to California in 1948 to begin a new life with her family and finds there people of all ages and races, new tastes, sounds, a joyous welcome.
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In Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Award winner, and New York Times bestseller, three sisters travel to turbulent Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of their mother.
After travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, Delphine and her two sisters discover that their mother, a dedicated poet, wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp in the must-read children's book One Crazy Summer.
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Set against key moments in the civil rights movement, this children's book offers a compelling narrative for picture-book readers to experience the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s tireless, lifelong pursuit for racial equality.
In Walter Dean Myers' and illustrator Leonard Jenkins' I've Seen The Promised Land, pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Coretta Scott King Award winners Charles R. Smith, Jr., and illustrator Floyd Cooper present young readers with the powerful story of the building of the White House, which was created largely by slave labor.
Constructed Brick by Brick, the White House was created by human hands, many of them slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of this country, in the powerful story of how the official residence and principal workplace of the United States presidents was built.
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Written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Nelson Mandela tells the story of a global icon in poignant verse and glorious illustrations.
Young readers will be inspired by Mandela's triumph and his lifelong quest to create a more just world.
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Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's legal landscape by challenging the racial segregation that had relegated millions to second-class citizenship. He won twenty-nine of thirty-three cases before the United States Supreme Court, was a federal appeals court judge, served as the US solicitor general, and, for twenty-four years, sat on the Supreme Court.
Marshall is best known for achievements after he relocated to New York in 1936 to work for the NAACP. But Marshall's personality, attitudes, priorities, and work habits had crystallized during earlier years in Maryland. Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice is the first close examination of the formative period in Marshall's life.
As author Larry S. Gibson shows, Thurgood Marshall was a fascinating man of contrasts. He fought for racial justice without becoming a racist. Simultaneously idealistic and pragmatic, Marshall was a passionate advocate, yet he maintained friendly relationships with his opponents. Young Thurgood reveals how Marshall's distinctive traits were molded by events, people, and circumstances early in his life.
Professor Gibson presents fresh information about Marshall's family, youth, and education. Gibson describes Marshall's key mentors, the special impact of his high school and college competitive debating, his struggles to establish a law practice during the Great Depression, and his first civil rights cases. The author sheds new light on the NAACP and its first lawsuits in the campaign that led to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. He also corrects some of the often-repeated stories about Marshall that are inaccurate.
The only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family, Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice is an exhaustively researched and engagingly written work that everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography will want to read.
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Author Ronald S. Coddington follows the presents this remarkable album of 77 succinct sketches of African Americans, illustrated with images drawn from cartes de visite, ambrotypes and tintypes.
Of the roughly 200,000 men who enlisted in the army and navy and the thousands who were servants "to officers in the Union and Confederate armies," only a few have entered the pages of more familiar history.
Coddington helps rectify that lapse, uncovering the past and honoring the service of his 77 subjects. African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album uses archival photographs to introduce African American men who fought in the Civil War, whose roles ranged from servants and laborers to junior officers, and includes details on each man's life through military records and personal files.
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By examining images of African American from the 1850s, when many were slaves, to the 1930s, Deborah Willis, a leading scholar of African American photography at New York University, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, assistant history professor Barbara Krauthamer capture several generations of change.
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery shows us what freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era.
In this pioneering book, Willis and Krauthamer have amassed 150 photographs - some never before published - from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s.
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Author Jessie Carney Smith presents over four thousand accomplishments by African Americans in the fields of entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, journalism, religion, science, sports and music.
A testament to a rich but often overlooked part of history, this volume captures the stories of barrier-breaking African American pioneers in all fields.
With hundreds of illustrations and a daily calendar of firsts, Black Firsts, Third Edition reveals stories of those who overcame adversity to emerge triumphant and celebrates those who have won personal victories against the forces arrayed against them.
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We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary, middle and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963.
Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s precept to "fill the jails," the students succeeded in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America. The astonishing events surrounding the Children's March are retold here from the perspectives of four of the original participants.
Written by author Cynthia Levinson, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March is the inspiring story of one of the greatest moments in civil rights history as seen through the eyes of four young people who were at the center of the action. Levinson retells the story of how, against the better judgment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., young people led the civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
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This year, we kick off Black History Month with this essential look at the evolution of the civil rights movement in American history.
The King Years is a succinct and accessible chronicle of key events in the civil rights movement. Written by Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of the trilogy that includes Parting the Waters, this book traces how the movement evolved from a bus strike to a political and social revolution.
In The King Years, Taylor Branch relates the dramatic story of how the civil rights movement evolved from a bus strike to a political revolutions and brings this historic achievement to a wider audience.
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