Research Catalog

Title

Unequal : a story of America / Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau.

Author

Dyson, Michael Eric

Publication

• New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
• ©2022

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Favreau, Marc, 1968-

Description

xiii, 348 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• "Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality."--
• The true story of racial inequality-- and resistance to it-- is the prologue to our present. Dyson and Favreau deliver a gripping chronicle of the struggles that shaped modern America through the stories of some of the many African American people who dared to fight for a more equal future. Inequality persists-- but there are many paths to resist. -- adapted from jacket

Alternative Title

Un equal : a story of America

Subjects

• Civil rights movements
• Civil rights workers
• United States
• African Americans
• Instructional and educational works
• Race relations
• 1900-1999
• Biographies
• Juvenile works
• History
• United States > Race relations > Juvenile literature
• Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
• Civil rights workers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
• African Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile literature

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.
• Juvenile works.
• Instructional and educational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.

Audience (note)

• Ages 12 & up
• Grades: 7-12.

Contents

Prologue: A note to readers. -- 1. Mary Church Terrell fights back against segregation -- 2. Ida B. Wells exposes America's lynching epidemic -- 3. Buck Franklin bears witness to the destruction of Black Wall Street -- 4. Ned Cobb confronts racial inequality at work -- 5. Dr. Ossian Sweet breaks through the color line to find a home in Detroit -- 6. Pauli Murray discovers the key to ending segregation in schools -- 7. Daisy Myers integrates the white suburbs -- 8. Malcolm X launches a struggle against police brutality -- 9. Fannie Lou Hamer takes back the right to vote -- 10. James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi -- 11. Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis's sanitation workers protest for equal pay -- 12. John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise a fist for Black Pride -- 13. Ruth Batson uncovers segregation in Boston -- 14. Michelle Alexander confronts the New Jim Crow -- 15. Catherine Flowers, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, and Barack Obama expose America's crisis of environmental racism -- 16. Yusuf Salaam battles racial profiling -- 17. Stacey Abrams leads the fight against voter suppression -- 18. Dr. Susan Moore calls out America's unequal health care -- 19. The Black Lives Matter Movement opens the latest battle for racial equality -- 20. Nikole Hannah-Jones taps into the power of history. -- Afterword: The story of inequality in America. Acknowledgments -- Source notes -- Index.

Call Number

Sc D 23-114

ISBN

• 9780759557017
• 0759557012

LCCN

2021058473

OCLC

• 1276932854
• 1276932854

Author

Dyson, Michael Eric, author.

Title

Unequal : a story of America / Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau.

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.

Audience

Ages 12 & up Little, Brown and Company.

Grades: 7-12.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Favreau, Marc, 1968- author.

Cover Title

Un equal : a story of America

Research Call Number

Sc D 23-114