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2023., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: E WEA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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-- Hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation[2022]., Adult, Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: SOCIAL ISSUES NF VIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--
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[2022]., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYSTERY F JAC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation...Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret...one that will cost them all their lives"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- Chronicle of racism in America.[2022]., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. Call No: DVD 305.800973 WHO Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
