Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2018., Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 909.82 196 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested.
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By Pink, Randi2021., Feiwel and Friends Call No: HISTORICAL F PIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place as equals. Sixteen-year-old Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil. Also, as a loyal follower of Booker T. Washington, she believes, through education and tolerance, that black people should rise slowly and without forced conflict. Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible-toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon. But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HI-INT 976.6 COL Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factors--white resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and more--a portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the mid-twentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of America--and by showing us who we are, points to a way forward"--From the publisher's web site.
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2008., Adolescent, David Fickling Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC DOWD Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
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By Ostow, Micolc2011., Adolescent, Egmont USA Call No: Historical Fic Ostow Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
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-- Irish Republican Army and England2002., Chelsea House Call No: 941.508 WAG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: People at oddsSummary Note: Discusses the background and development of the conflict between the IRA fighting for the Catholics in Ireland and the British government forces supporting the Irish Protestants.
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2003., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 941.508 DER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Inside the world's most infamous terrorist organizationsSummary Note: Examines the historical origins, philosophy, and most notorious attacks of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and discusses its present activities and counter-terrorism efforts directed against it.
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1999., Juvenile, Enslow Publishers Call No: 973.928 COL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American disastersSummary Note: Discusses the riots that occurred in Los Angeles in 1992 after the verdict in the Rodney King case.
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2011, c2010., Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks Call No: 973.924 MOO Edition: Spiegel & Grau trad Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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2010., Spiegel & Grau Call No: B Moore Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
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c2002., Little, Brown, and Co. Call No: 796.323 FEI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the events surrounding a fistfight between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers in 1977 in which Rudy Tomjanovich was nearly killed by a blow from Kermit Washington and discusses how both men's lives, and the game of basketball, were affected by the fight.
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-- Tulsa Race Massacre[2021]., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 976.6 8600496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Tulsa Race Massacre[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 976.6 Wea Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: ". . . a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in United States history"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Tulsa Race Massacre[2021]., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 976.6 8600496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
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-- Tulsa Race Massacre[2021]., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: E WEA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
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-- Tulsa Race Massacre[2021]., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 976.6 86 900496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A picture book that sensitively examines the racial massacre in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. The book describes the residents of the prosperous African American community, and what happened when a white mob attacked and destroyed the town. Includes an author's and an illustrator's note with photographs.
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c2000., Salem Press Call No: Ref 909.8 Wor Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Contains 104 essays that examine conflicts and confrontations in countries around the world, each with a summary of the featured country's most pressing problems; analysis of the origins, nature, and history of the conflicts; country facts and statistics; maps; a timeline; and sources of further information.
