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African Americans Social conditions Discrimination in criminal justice administration United States Discrimination in sports Race discrimination Robinson, Jackie 1919-1972 Sex discrimination against women Sex discrimination in science Sex discrimination in sports Law and legislation United States Women BiographyFleshman, Lauren
Summary: "Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes. Lauren Fleshman has grown up in the world of running: one of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion as a pro, she was a major face of women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLESHMAN, LAUREN FLEBuolamwini, Joy
Summary: "Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art-disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women's sports and the controversy surrounding trans athletes by a leading LGBTQ+ sports journalist. For decades women have been playing competitive sports thanks in large part to the protective cover of Title IX. Since passage of that law, the number of women participating in sports and the level of competition in high school, college,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.082 BARWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 COXCutright, Patricia J.
Summary: "Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 973 CUTMohammed, Rahaf
Summary: In January 2019, then 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed escaped from her family while holidaying in Kuwait. She was fleeing systematic abuse of her human rights as a woman growing up in Saudi Arabia and, specifically, her family's threats to kill her because she desired the freedoms Western women take for granted. She boarded a plane bound for Bangkok, en route to Australia where she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOHAMMAD, RAHAF MOHSmith, Elliott
Summary: "On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made history when he stepped onto the baseball diamond as a Brooklyn Dodger. For the first time in more than 60 years, a Black player took the field in a professional baseball game. How did Robinson break through the racist barriers that had kept so many Black athletes out of professional sports? And what is the enduring legacy of his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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Summary: "[Ben Crump] shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slave-owning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRUMP, BENJAMIN CRUHarris, Duchess
Summary: "In 1947, black baseball player Jackie Robinson broke through Major League Baseball's color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson Breaks Barriers examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Robinson himself, his wife, Rachel, and broadcaster Red Barber. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.357092 HARBedrick, David
Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BEDDutt, Yashica
Summary: "Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India," Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear "Dalit looking." Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2024
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Summary: "A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 GLATyner, Artika R.
Summary: "When the United States entered World War II, it had to face its own contradictions at home. Opportunities opened up for Black people and women in support of the war effort. But ideas about race and gender didn't change as swiftly. Read the story of the first all-Black battalion in the Women's Army Corps-the Six Triple Eight-and its leader, Major Charity Adams. These women bravely confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 TYNAdams, Jarrett
Summary: "He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, in this unforgettable memoir, a pioneering lawyer recalls the journey that led to his exoneration-and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, JARRETT ADACoates, Laura Gayle
Summary: "A powerful true story and groundbreaking account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the US Department of Justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COATES, LAURA COACocca-Leffler, Maryann
Summary: In the 1970s an important disability rights law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, was waiting to be signed. Judy [Heumann] and other disability rights activists fought for YES! They held a sit-in until Section 504 was signed into law. Section 504--established thanks in large part to the ongoing work of Judy and her community--laid the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEUColwell, Rita R.
Summary: A memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLWELL, RITA COLDyson, Michael Eric
Summary: "In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence. Kennedy walked away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DYSManuel, Ian
Summary: "The ... story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of ... legal activist Bryan Stevenson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANUEL, IAN MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MANUEL MANMeckler, Laura
Summary: "In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to shed light on what's being done to move forward-in housing, in education, and in the promise of shared community. In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MECAlexander, Elizabeth
Summary: "In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 ALEErvick, Kelcey
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl's life and changed women's history forever"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 ERVICK, KELCEY ERVGillard, Julia
Summary: "In conversation with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women, Women and Leadership explores gender bias and explores the barriers to women's participation in politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2021