"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"--
Publisher:New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Mary Church Terrell Fights Back Against Segregation -- Ida B. Wells Exposes America's Lynching Epidemic -- Buck Franklin Bears Witness to the Destruction of Black Wall Street -- Ned Cobb Confronts Racial Inequality on the Job -- Dr. Ossian Sweet Breaks Through the Color Line to Find a Home in Detroit -- Pauli Murray Discovers the Key to Ending Segregation in Schools -- Daisy Myers Integrates the White Suburbs -- Malcolm X Launches a Struggle Against Police Brutality -- Fannie Lou Hamer Takes Back the Right to Vote -- James Meredith Integrates the University of Mississippi -- Martin Rev. Dr. Luther King Jr. and Memphis's Sanitation Workers Protest for Equal Pay -- John Carlos and Tommie Smith Raise a Fist for Black Pride -- Ruth Batson Uncovers Segregation in Boston -- Michelle Alexander Confronts the New Jim Crow -- Barack Obama, Catherine Flowers, and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Expose America's Crisis of Environmental Racism -- Yusuf Salaam Battles Racial Profiling -- Stacey Abrams Leads the Fight Against Voter Suppression -- Dr. Susan Moore Calls Out America's Unequal Health Care -- The Black Lives Matter Movement Opens the Final Battle for Racial Equality -- Nikole Hannah-Jones Taps into the Power of History.