This young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White
Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens. An NAACP Image
Award finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A NYPL Best
Book for Teens History texts often teach that the United States has
made a straight line of progress toward Black equality. The reality
is more complex: milestones like the end of slavery, school
integration, and equal voting rights have all been met with racist
legal and political maneuverings meant to limit that progress. We
Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the
Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the
promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great
Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from
moving away from the South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown
v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of
public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964
and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised
millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that
disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President
Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of Black
teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of
Donald Trump. Including photographs and archival imagery and extra
context, backmatter, and resources specifically for teens, this
book provides essential history to help work for an equal future.
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