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Twelve days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
By Larry Dane Brimner. 2017
Recounts the twelve days in May, 1961, when thirteen black and white Freedom Riders traveled by bus from Washington, D.…
C., into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Their peaceful protest was met by violence. Violence. For grades 5-8. 2017Martin rising: requiem for a King
By Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney. 2018
The history of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Recounts the original campaign in the…
early 1900s to build a national museum honoring the experiences and contributions of African Americans. Also explores the museum's historical and modern-day exhibits. For grades 5-8. 2016March forward, girl: from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
By Melba Pattillo Beals, Frank Morrison. 2018
Childhood memoir of growing up in the hostile Jim Crow South that led to Beals's activism and desire for equality.…
She eventually volunteered to be one of nine black students to enroll in Little Rock's all-white Central High School in 1957. Violence and some strong language. For grades 5-8. 2018All that trash: the story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and our problem with stuff
By Meghan McCarthy. 2018
Recounts the true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock for months, because no state…
or government wanted to take New York's trash. This newsworthy event helped usher in the recycling movement. For grades K-3. 2018Letters of Note: New York City (Letters of Note)
By Shaun Usher. 2021
An illuminating and energetic collection of letters about New York City curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters…
of Note website. The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name--an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter. Now, the curator of Letters of Note, Shaun Usher, gives us wonderful new volumes featuring letters organized around a universal theme. In this volume, Shaun Usher collects letters about New York City. Contributors to be confirmed.Forgotten bones: uncovering a slave cemetery
By Lois Miner Huey. 2016
Pasando páginas: la historia de mi vida
By Lulu Delacre, Sonia Sotomayor. 2018
La primera latina en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor recuerda la influencia formativa de los libros…
en su vida. Ella explora cómo su amor por la literatura le proporcionó la inspiración para realizar sus sueños. Para grados 2-4Hammering for freedom: the William Lewis story (New Voices Ser.)
By John Holyfield, Rita Lorraine Hubbard. 2018
Tells the story of William "Bill" Lewis, who was born into slavery on a Tennessee plantation in 1810 and became…
a hard-working blacksmith who slowly saved his money to buy his family's freedom. For grades K-3. 2018The capture of Black Bart: gentleman bandit of the Old West
By Norman H. Finkelstein. 2019
Recounts the eight-year cat-and-mouse game in the late nineteenth century between Black Bart, an Old West stagecoach robber, and James…
B. Hume, Wells Fargo's chief detective. Famous for his polite treatment of stagecoach passengers, Bart also surprised the public with his poetry. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2018Unpunished murder: massacre at Colfax and the quest for justice
By Lawrence Goldstone. 2018
Recounts the Easter Sunday 1873 slaughter of more than one hundred unarmed African Americans by white supremacists in Louisiana--none of…
whom was convicted. Follows the opinion issued by the Supreme Court allowing post-slavery discrimination that continues to this day. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2018What do you do with a voice like that?: the story of extraordinary congresswoman Barbara Jordan
By Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes. 2018
A rift in the Earth: art, memory, and the fight for a Vietnam War memorial
By James Reston Jr.. 2017
Army veteran and author of The Conviction of Richard Nixon (DB 68946) presents the history of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.…
Covers the fights over the creation of a memorial, the selection and implementation of the winning design, and his own reflections on the conflicts. 2017Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples
By Chief Clarence Louie. 2021
A common sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life…
and legacy of a remarkable leader.In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four decades. The story of how the Osoyoos Indian Band—"The Miracle in the Desert"—transformed from a Rez that once struggled with poverty into an economically independent people is well-known. Guided by his years growing up on the Rez, Chief Louie believes that economic and business independence are key to self-sufficiency, reconciliation, and justice for First Nations people. In Rez Rules, Chief Louie writes about his youth in Osoyoos, from early mornings working in the vineyards, to playing and coaching sports, and attending a largely white school in Oliver, B.C. He remembers enrolling in the "Native American Studies" program at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in 1979 and falling in love with First Nations history. Learning about the historic significance of treaties was life-changing. He recalls his first involvement in activism: participating in a treaty bundle run across the country before embarking on a path of leadership. He and his band have worked hard to achieve economic growth and record levels of employment. Inspired by his ancestors’ working culture, and by the young people on the reserve, Chief Louie continues to work for First Nations’ self-sufficiency and independence. Direct and passionate, Chief Louie brings together wide-ranging subjects: life on the Rez, including Rez language and humour; per capita payments; the role of elected chiefs; the devastating impact of residential schools; the need to look to culture and ceremony for governance and guidance; the use of Indigenous names and logos by professional sports teams; his love for motorcycle honour rides; and what makes a good leader. He takes aim at systemic racism and examines the relationship between First Nations and colonial Canada and the United States, and sounds a call to action for First Nations to "Indian Up!" and "never forget our past." Offering leadership lessons on and off the Rez, this memoir describes the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader and provides a common-sense blueprint for the future of First Nations communities. In it, Chief Louie writes, "Damn, I’m lucky to be an Indian!"Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir
By Theodore Fontaine. 2010
“Too many survivors of Canada’s Indian residential schools live to forget. Theodore Fontaine writes to remember." - Hana Gartner, CBC's…
The Fifth Estate Now an approved curriculum resource for grade 9–12 students in British Columbia and Manitoba. Theodore (Ted) Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Canada. Twelve years later, he left school frozen at the emotional age of seven. He was confused, angry and conflicted, on a path of self-destruction. At age 29, he emerged from this blackness. By age 32, he had graduated from the Civil Engineering Program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and begun a journey of self-exploration and healing. In this powerful and poignant memoir, Ted examines the impact of his psychological, emotional and sexual abuse, the loss of his language and culture, and, most important, the loss of his family and community. He goes beyond details of the abuses of Native children to relate a unique understanding of why most residential school survivors have post-traumatic stress disorders and why succeeding generations of First Nations children suffer from this dark chapter in history. Told as remembrances described with insights that have evolved through his healing, his story resonates with his resolve to help himself and other residential school survivors and to share his enduring belief that one can pick up the shattered pieces and use them for good.In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation
By Bill Waiser. 2020
In May 1897, Almighty Voice, a member of the One Arrow Willow Cree, died violently when Canada's North-West Mounted Police…
shelled the fugitive's hiding place. Since then, his violent death has spawned a succession of conflicting stories — from newspaper features, magazine articles and pulp fiction to plays and film.Almighty Voice has been maligned, misunderstood, romanticized, celebrated, and invented. Indeed, there have been many Almighty Voices over the years. What these stories have in common is that the Willow Cree man mattered. Understanding why he mattered has a direct bearing on reconciliation efforts today.A computer called Katherine: how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
By Suzanne Slade, Veronica Miller Jamison. 2019
The story of pioneering African American mathematician Katherine Johnson, who performed calculations vital to America's first manned space flight, its…
first manned orbit of Earth, and the first trip to the moon. For grades K-3. 2019When angels sing: the story of rock legend Carlos Santana
By Michael James Mahin, Jose Ramirez. 2018
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of rock legend Carlos Santana, who created a unique sound that fused American blues, rock,…
and jazz traditions with the sound of Latin American and African music. For grades K-3. 20181919: the year that changed America
By Martin W. Sandler. 2019
Explores the major movements of 1919 that changed the country just as World War I came to an end. Covers…
the rise of women's suffrage, the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, and Prohibition. For grades 6-9. 2019We are not yet equal: understanding our racial divide
By Tonya Bolden, Carol Anderson. 2018
Professor of African American studies discusses five milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in American democracy and…
the systemic racist backlash that rolled back the wins. Young adult adaptation of White Rage (DB 86343). For senior high and older readers. 2018