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In silence or indifference : racism and Jim Crow segregated public school libraries / by Wiegand, Wayne A.,1946-author.(CARDINAL)136862;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community has often overlooked-even ignored-its own history of white supremacy and deliberate inaction on the part of white librarians and library leadership. Author Wayne A. Wiegand takes a crucial step to amend this historical record. In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries analyzes and critiques the world of professional librarianship between 1954 and 1974. Wiegand begins by identifying racism in the practice and customs of public school libraries in the years leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. This culture permeated the next two decades, as subsequent Supreme Court decisions led to feeble and mostly unsuccessful attempts to integrate Jim Crow public schools and their libraries. During this same period, the profession was honing its national image as a defender of intellectual freedom, a proponent of the freedom to read, and an opponent of censorship. Still, the community did not take any unified action to support Brown or to visibly oppose racial segregation. As Black school librarians and their Black patrons suffered through the humiliations and hostility of the Jim Crow educational establishment, the American library community remained largely ambivalent and silent. The book brings to light a distressing history that continues to impact the library community, its students, and its patrons. Currently available school library literature skews the historical perspective that informs the present. In Silence or Indifference is the first attempt to establish historical accountability for the systemic racism contemporary school librarianship inherited in the twenty-first century"--

Subjects: African Americans and libraries; African Americans; School libraries; Young adults' libraries; Libraries and teenagers; African American librarians.; African Americans; Legal status.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The courage of their convictions / by Irons, Peter H.,1940-(CARDINAL)162624;

Bibliography: pages 413-420.Lillian Gobitis v. Minersville School District -- Gordon Hirabayashi v. United States -- J.D. Shelley v. Louis Kraemer -- Lloyd Barenblatt v. United States -- Daisy Bates v. Little Rock -- Robert Mack Bell v. Maryland -- Daniel Seeger v. United States -- Barbara Elfbrandt v. Imogene Russell -- Susan Epperson v. Arkansas -- Mary Beth Tinker v. Des Moines -- Dr. Jane Hodgson v. Minnesota -- Demetrio Rodriguez v. San Antonio -- Jo Carol LaFleur v. Cleveland Board of Education -- Elmer Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. -- Ishmael Jaffree v. George Wallace -- Michael Hardwick v. Michael Bowers -- Epilogue: "Doesn't anybody remember the Spanish Inquisition?"Profiles civil rights cases on flag salutes, internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, housing discrimination, First Amendment, school integration, segregation, conscientious objectors, loyalty oaths, teaching of evolution, Vietnam War protests, abortion, property-tax finance system, maternity leave, libel, prayer in public schools, sodomy laws.

Subjects: United States. Supreme Court.; Civil rights; Civil rights workers;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever / by Madden, Bill.(CARDINAL)780856;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268) and index."Jackie Robinson heroically broke the color barrier in 1947. But how--and, in practice, when--did the integration of the sport actually occur? Bill Madden shows that baseball's famous "black experiment" did not truly succeed until the coming of age of Willie Mays and the emergence of some star players--Larry Doby, Hank Aaron, and Ernie Banks--in 1954. And as a relevant backdrop off the field, it was in May of that year that the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation be outlawed in America's public schools. Featuring original interviews with key players and weaving together the narrative of one of baseball's greatest seasons with the racially charged events of that year, 1954 demonstrates how our national pastime--with the notable exception of the Yankees, who represented white supremacy in the game--was actually ahead of the curve in terms of the acceptance of black Americans, while the nation at large continued to struggle with tolerance"--Describes the 1954 World Series, when two black players went with their division-winning teams, the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians, to fight for the championship, seven years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line.

Subjects: Mays, Willie, 1931-2024.; Discrimination in sports; African American baseball players; Baseball;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8

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Brown v. Board of Education / by Furgang, Kathy,author.(CARDINAL)653920;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The Brown v. Board of Education decision comes to mind whenever the topic of landmarks of the American civil rights movement is discussed. The 1954 Supreme Court decision declared it unconstitutional to segregate public school students, opening the door for many other civil rights advances after that. This thoughtful and informative book details the history of the case as well as its impact on the quickly changing America of the 1950s and 1960s. The book also describes how schools and civil rights have changed since this important Supreme Court case.Why do we use the Supreme Court? -- An important case: Dred Scott -- Separate but equal -- The Brown family -- What did Kansas decide? -- Other civil rights education cases -- The history of education for African Americans -- The equal protection clause -- Why was this case important? -- The decision -- Chief Justice Earl Warren -- The results -- Effects on the civil rights movement -- How schools have changed -- How else does the Supreme Court help with civil rights? -- Looking ahead to new civil rights laws.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961; Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education; Segregation in education;

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Jim Crow's pink slip : the untold story of Black principal and teacher leadership / by Fenwick, Leslie T.,author.; Milner, H. Richard,IV,author of foreword.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.Foreword / by H. Richard Milner IV -- 1. Who shall lead? -- 2. The myth of Black professional inferiority -- 3. Position poaching: the names and circumstances of those purged -- 4. Litigating Jim Crow desegregation: the struggle to end the decimation -- 5. Superintendents, the Southern Manifesto, and school choice -- 6. Implementing Brown without Black principals and teachers -- 7. The past is ever present.Exposes the decades-long repercussions of the too-little-known result of resistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision: the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools. The Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals. In the Deep South and northern border states over the decades following Brown, Black schools closed and Black educators were uniformly displaced. As educational policy and leadership expert Leslie T. Fenwick deftly demonstrates, the effects of these changes stand contrary to the democratic ideals of an integrated society and equal educational opportunity for all students. The author provides an account of how tremendous the loss to the US educational system was and continues to be. Despite efforts of the NAACP and other civil rights organizations, congressional hearings during the Nixon administration, and antiracist activism of the 21st century, the problems fomented after Brown persist. The book draws the line from the past injustices to problems that the educational system grapples with today: not simply the underrepresentation of Black teachers and principals, but also salary reductions, teacher shortages, and systemic inequality. By engaging with the complicated legacy of the Brown decision, Fenwick sheds light on a crucial chapter in education history. She also offers policy prescriptions aimed at correcting the course of US education, supporting educators, and improving workforce quality and diversity. --From publisher's description.

Subjects: African American schools; African American educators; African American teachers; African Americans; African Americans;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

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White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide / by Anderson, Carol(Carol Elaine)(CARDINAL)669819;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-263) and index.Prologue: Kindling -- Reconstructing Reconstruction -- Derailing the Great Migration -- Burning Brown to the ground -- Rolling back civil rights -- How to unelect a black President -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition. After the election: Imagining."As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, with media commentators referring to the angry response of African Americans yet again as 'black rage, ' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage' at work. 'With so much attention on the flames, ' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances toward full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow. The Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response--the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised and imprisoned millions of African Americans. Carefully linking these and other historical flash points when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted white opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered punitive actions allegedly made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates over a century and a half, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America."--Publisher information.

Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; White people; White people; Opposition (Political science); Racism; Racism.;

Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 27

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The schoolhouse gate : public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the American mind / by Driver, Justin,author.(CARDINAL)620165;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-535) and index.Early encounters with race, culture, religion, and patriotism -- Freedom of expression from black armbands to BONG HiTS 4 JESUS -- Suspensions, corporal punishment, and intolerable "zero tolerance" policies -- Policing student investigations : searching students' bodies, suspicionless drug testing, and Miranda warnings -- Equal protection I : racial segregation and the enduring battle over Brown v. Board of Education -- Equal protection II : funding disparities, sex separations, and unauthorized immigration -- The quiet détente over religion and education."An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer--these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students' constitutional rights and risked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court's decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students' rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools--or America itself--in the same way again."--Dust jacket.

Subjects: Students; Educational law and legislation; Constitutional law;

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Radical Brown : keeping the promise to America's children / by Spencer, Margaret Beale,author.; Dowd, Nancy E.,1949-author.(CARDINAL)636731;

Includes bibliographical references and index."A rallying cry for equitable education informed by a revolutionary re-reading of Brown v. Board of Education, on the 70th anniversary of the ruling. In Radical Brown, renowned developmental scholar Margaret Beale Spencer and critical legal analyst Nancy E. Dowd offer a fresh perspective on the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Noting that decades of flawed implementation have subverted Brown's great promise of educational equality for K-12 public school students, Spencer and Dowd propose a bold framework for a new interpretation of the Supreme Court decision, one that is inclusive, identity affirming, and culturally sensitive. Even as they envision a more equitable future for US students, Spencer and Dowd look critically at the historical context of Brown v. Board of Education, examining the roots of the inequality and segregation the ruling attempted to address, the resistance that the resulting school integration met, and the legacy of attempts to enforce the ruling. They trace the ways in which post-Brown policies have reinforced race privilege for white students and race subordination for Black and marginalized students and show how structural and cultural racism in education have impeded youth development and caused collective identity injury for all. Ultimately, this galvanizing work introduces a way forward that upholds the Brown ruling's intended meaning and mandate. Radical Brown offers suggestions for action, from everyday practice to policy change, to help legislators, school boards, scholars, and educators correct course and enact the decision's true intent-of safeguarding rights based on a common humanity. "--

Subjects: Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961; Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education; Educational equalization; Racism in education; Educational change;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Lovely one : a memoir / by Jackson, Ketanji Brown,1970-author.(CARDINAL)876373;

Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-405).Preface: a sacred trust -- Part one : bringing the gifts. The dream -- Black studies -- No place like home -- The deep end -- Warrior hearts -- Mighty spirit striving -- Force of nature -- The secret -- Beloved community -- In circle square -- Our people -- A more perfect union -- Love changes everything -- In full sail -- Part two : grit and grace. A year like no other -- African homecoming -- The culture of big law -- What is justice? -- Call of duty -- Parenthood -- The bench -- Life support -- From Leila's lips (to God's ears) -- America the beautiful -- We are the dream -- Epilogue: lovely life."With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America's highest court within the span of one generation. Named 'Ketanji Onyika,' meaning 'Lovely One,' based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations. Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don't look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood. Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson's journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. This moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come."--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Jackson, Ketanji Brown, 1970-; United States. Supreme Court; African American women judges; Women judges; Judges;

Available copies: 72 / Total copies: 86

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Lovely one [large print] : a memoir / by Jackson, Ketanji Brown,1970-author.(CARDINAL)876373;

Includes bibliographical notes and references (pages 591-623).Preface: A sacred trust -- Part one: Bringing the gifts. The dream -- Black studies -- No place like home -- The deep end -- Warrior hearts -- Mighty spirit striving -- Force of nature -- The secret -- Beloved community -- In circle square -- Our people -- A more perfect union -- Love changes everything -- Part two: Grit and grace. A year like no other -- African homecoming -- The culture of big law -- What is justice? -- Call of duty -- Parenthood -- The bench -- Life support -- From Leila's lips (to God's ears) -- America the beautiful -- We are the dream -- Epilogue: Lovely life -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Photograph credits.With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family's ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America's highest court within the span of one generation. Named "Ketanji Onyika," meaning "Lovely One," based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations. Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don't look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood. Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson's journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside.

Subjects: Large print books.; Autobiographies.; Jackson, Ketanji Brown, 1970-; United States. Supreme Court; Women judges; African American women judges;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9

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