Unequal : a story of America

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"Bestselling, world-renowned author and historian Michael Eric Dyson makes his young readers debut alongside award-winning author Marc Favreau in an astonishing feat of narrative nonfiction that shows how deeply ingrained racial inequality is in every facet of American society, and illuminates those fighting for meaningful change. Now in paperback!"-- Finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award New York Times bestsellin...

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ISBN:

9780759557031
0759557039

Edition:

First trade paperback edition

Description:

368 pages ; 22 cm

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
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

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3273237

Other Authors:

Favreau, Marc, 1968- author

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