Winn, Kevin P.
Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Atrocities in Action explores the various forms of violent and cruel oppression Black people have endured over the years in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 WINWinn, Kevin P.
Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Tulsa Race Riots and the Red Summer of 1919 explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 WINChambers, Veronica
Summary: This timely book covers the rise of Black Lives Matter and how it has been shaped by United States history, telling the story of how a hashtag became a movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 CHA1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 CHA
Summary: One hundred years after the destruction of the Black-owned Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, residents and descendants examine the history of the 1921 tragedy and its aftermath. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, the film explores vital issues of atonement, reconciliation and reparation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TULAbu-Jamal, Mumia
Summary: "'This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States. This is the book we need right now to find our bearings in the chaos'--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States; 'Mumia's writings are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 ABUHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "Unarmed citizens shot by police. Drinking water turned to poison. Mass incarcerations. We've heard the individual stories. Now a leading public intellectual and acclaimed journalist offers a powerful, paradigm-shifting analysis of America's current state of emergency, finding in these events a larger and more troubling truth about race, class, and what it means to be "Nobody." Protests in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016