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Profiles the four Black players who broke the color barrier in professional football when they were signed on to play for the Los Angeles Rams and the Cleveland Browns. Also discusses how other barriers were broken in the sport, including the quarterback position, coaching positions, referee positions, and positions for Black females at various levels. Includes a glossary and reflection questions.
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"As the lead investigator into both the 2017 racist riot in Charlottesville and the January 6 insurrection, Tim Heaphy has a unique perspective on the cynicism and anger that also fueled Trump's return to the Presidency. All 3 events, both the violent protests and the peaceful and lawful decisions made at the ballot box in November of 2024, reflect an increasing lack of trust in institutions among a growing number of Americans. In his page-turning...
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Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insider's account of the “silent brotherhood”--the most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan. They claim to be patriots, as American as apple pie, but they are this nation's deadly brotherhood--hate groups that package their alienation against the federal government under such names as the Aryan Nation, the Order, and other white supremacist militias.The group...
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"In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement. More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office. But hopes for a unified, post-racial America were deflated when Barack Obama's presidency met with furious opposition. A white, right-wing backlash was brewing, and...
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"A poignant picture book biography on how John Lewis got his library card and helped change history. All John Lewis wanted was a library card, but in 1956, libraries were only for white people. That didn't seem fair to John, and so he spent a lifetime advocating for change and fighting against unfair laws until the laws changed. Finally, black people could eat at restaurants, see movies, vote in elections, and even get library cards. With an in-depth...