TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Carol TI - We are not yet equal: understanding our racial divide SN - 9781632864123 AV - 002 E 185 A545w 2016 U1 - 323.1196/073 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury KW - Whites KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - Juvenile literature KW - Afroamericanos KW - Estados Unidos KW - PolĂ­tica y gobierno KW - Racism KW - History KW - Racismo KW - Historia KW - Literatura juvenil KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights KW - Derechos civiles KW - Social conditions KW - Condiciones sociales KW - Race relations KW - Relaciones raciales N1 - Grades 7-8; Ages 12-18 N2 - "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 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. This YA adaptation will be written in an approachable narrative style that provides teen readers with additional context to these historic moments, photographs and archival images, and additional backmatter and resources for teens."--Provided by publisher ER -