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Unequal : a story of America

Title
Unequal : a story of America / Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau.
Author
Dyson, Michael Eric
Publication
  • New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
Favreau, Marc, 1968-
Description
xiii, 348 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  • "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 true story of racial inequality-- and resistance to it-- is the prologue to our present. Dyson and Favreau deliver a gripping chronicle of the struggles that shaped modern America through the stories of some of the many African American people who dared to fight for a more equal future. Inequality persists-- but there are many paths to resist. -- adapted from jacket
Alternative Title
Un equal : a story of America
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
  • Juvenile works.
  • Instructional and educational works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.
Audience (note)
  • Ages 12 & up
  • Grades: 7-12.
Contents
Prologue: A note to readers. -- 1. Mary Church Terrell fights back against segregation -- 2. Ida B. Wells exposes America's lynching epidemic -- 3. Buck Franklin bears witness to the destruction of Black Wall Street -- 4. Ned Cobb confronts racial inequality at work -- 5. Dr. Ossian Sweet breaks through the color line to find a home in Detroit -- 6. Pauli Murray discovers the key to ending segregation in schools -- 7. Daisy Myers integrates the white suburbs -- 8. Malcolm X launches a struggle against police brutality -- 9. Fannie Lou Hamer takes back the right to vote -- 10. James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi -- 11. Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis's sanitation workers protest for equal pay -- 12. John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise a fist for Black Pride -- 13. Ruth Batson uncovers segregation in Boston -- 14. Michelle Alexander confronts the New Jim Crow -- 15. Catherine Flowers, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, and Barack Obama expose America's crisis of environmental racism -- 16. Yusuf Salaam battles racial profiling -- 17. Stacey Abrams leads the fight against voter suppression -- 18. Dr. Susan Moore calls out America's unequal health care -- 19. The Black Lives Matter Movement opens the latest battle for racial equality -- 20. Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history. -- Afterword: The story of inequality in America. Acknowledgments -- Source notes -- Index.
Call Number
Sc D 23-114
ISBN
  • 9780759557017
  • 0759557012
LCCN
2021058473
OCLC
1276932854
Author
Dyson, Michael Eric, author.
Title
Unequal : a story of America / Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau.
Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.
Audience
Ages 12 & up Little, Brown and Company.
Grades: 7-12.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Favreau, Marc, 1968- author.
Cover Title
Un equal : a story of America
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-114
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