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Levinson, Cynthia

Summary: Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham's segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HENDRICKS LEV

Baldwin, James

Summary: First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of the black experience in the United States, it is considered one of the most passionate and influential explorations of 1960s race relations, weaving thematic threads of love, faith, and family into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.8 BAL

Living Cities (U.S.)

Summary: "From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans. In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 SYS

Vitale, Ami

Summary: Panda Love is a collection of incredible images of these gentle giants. Ami Vitale's stunning photographs, taken on location in China, document the efforts to breed pandas and release them back into the wild. Ami was given unprecedented access to the pandas and her photos give an amazing insight into the bears' lives in both the sanctuaries and their natural habitat. Fluffy panda cubs tumble...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.789 VIT

Bryant, Jennifer.

Summary: Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BRAILLE BRY

Andreas, Joel.

Summary: Cultural Writing. Political Science. Government. Education. ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 AND

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