Bibliograph

Unequal, a story of America, Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau

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Unequal, a story of America, Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

Ages 12 and up, Little, Brown and Company

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unequal

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1276932854

Responsibility statement

Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau

Sub title

a story of America

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."--, Provided by publisherThe 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

Table Of Contents

Prologue: A note to readers -- 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 at work -- Dr. 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 -- Catherine Flowers, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, and Barack Obama 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 latest battle for racial equality -- Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history - Afterword: The story of inequality in America

Target audience

adolescent

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Un equal, a story of America

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