race relations

The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man.

"How much do you know about Rosa Parks? Find out the facts you need to know about this activitist in the civil rights movement. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American"--Provided by publisher.

In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper and his recently-widowed mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and those who encourage him to follow the path of his "nigra-loving" father.

Explores the life and community organizing activism of African American woman Dorothy Pitman Hughes. She shared the activist stage with Gloria Steinem for five years and spent the rest of her life fighting for civil rights and equality wherever she lived.

Billie James learns she has inherited her poet father's Mississippi Delta shack thirty years after he died. When she returns to remodel the shack into a rental, she learns from locals that she went missing the day he died, when she was only four years old. As she digs through her father's writings, she uncovers the truth of his death and her disappearance.

Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this story, which is especially important today.

This handbook "offers powerful and practical tools to help you explore the history of racism, challenge stereotypes, and manage the stress and remorse that result from living in an unequal worlds. You'll understand your own racial identity, navigate daily and past experiences of racism, and examine ways racism affects all aspects of life-- from work to family to relationships. FInally, you'll discover how you can fight for racial justice, be an ally, and forge the building blocks needed to create a community of healing."--Cover.

Examines the achievement gap between students of different races and explains the need for candid, courageous conversations about race to help educators understand performance inequality and develop a curriculum that promotes true academic parity.

"Follows the evolution of race relations in America from the country's earliest beginnings until . . . [modern times]. The book examines how the concept of race originated and then developed through the eras of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and under the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump"--Provided by publisher.

Michele Norris tells the story of her experiences after setting out to discover what she calls the "hidden conversation on race" taking place in the U.S. since the election of Barack Obama as president--a quest that became intensely personal when she uncovered facts about her own family's history of encounters with racism.