We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide
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Bloomsbury YA,
New York :
2018.
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About
When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781547600762 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.print
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury YA, 2018.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Whites >
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Attitudes >
History.
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Whites >
United States >
Politics and government.
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Opposition (Political science) >
United States >
History.
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Racism >
United States >
History.
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African Americans >
Civil rights >
History.
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African Americans >
Politics and government.
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African Americans >
Social conditions.
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United States >
Race relations >
History.