We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide

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The work We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide

Title remainder

understanding our racial divide

Statement of responsibility

Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden

Title variation

Understanding our racial divide

Creator

• Anderson, Carol, (Carol Elaine)

Contributor

• Anderson, Carol, (Carol Elaine)

Subject

• African Americans -- Politics and government
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• Opposition (Political science) -- United States -- History
• Racism -- United States -- History
• United States -- Race relations | History
• Whites -- United States -- Attitudes | History
• Whites -- United States -- Politics and government
• African Americans -- Civil rights | History

Language

eng

Summary

"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 moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump. This YA adaptation will be written in an approachable narrative style that provides teen readers with additional context to these historic moments, photographs and archival images, and additional backmatter and resources for teens."--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

323.1196073

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Grades 7-8
• Ages 12-18

LC call number

E185.61

LC item number

.A5437 2018

Literary form

non fiction