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Asian Americans Asian Americans Civil rights Asian Americans Juvenile literature Daugherty, H. M. (Harry Micajah) 1860-1941 Fugate, Caril Ann Racism against Asians Starkweather, Charles Raymond 1938-1959 United States Victims of crimes Juvenile literature Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall) 1882-1975Masters, Nathan
Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MASMacLean, Harry N.
Summary: "On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MACYoo, Paula
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021