We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide
by Anderson, Carol (Author), Bolden, Tonya (Author)
Summary
"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these mome... Full description
- Foreword / by Nic Stone
- Prologue
- "Original sin"
- "But for your race"
- Forty acres and a mule
- Black codes
- "We showed our hand too soon"
- "Johnson is with us!"
- Courting justice
- Derailing the great migration
- The sweet ordeal
- Building toward Brown
- Beating down Brown
- The NAACP and Sputnik
- Rolling back civil rights
- "Like your whole world depended on it"
- In the crosshairs: the VRA
- Beating down Brown (again!)
- The Reagan revolution
- Crack
- "Streets cleared of garbage"
- Obama
- Shelby County vs. Holder: gutting the VRA
- "Why would they try to make people hate us?"
- Epilogue
- Discussion guide.