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Prejudices

Sapo Y El Forastero

Max Velthuijs

When a strange rat sets up camp in the woods, Frog's friends are very suspicious and unfriendly because he seems so different from them.

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Korematsu V. United States

Karen Alonso

This book profiles the case of Fred Korematsu, who sought compensation from the American government for his time spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.

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Necessary Roughness

Marie G. Lee

Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship w

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Hate Crimes

Laura D'Angelo

Discusses the increasing incidence of crimes that are motivated by bias against another person or group, examining the causes and occurrences of such hate crimes and the psychology of those who commit

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Gender Bias

Vertical file with articles on sexual discrimination.

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Racism

Vertical file with articles on racism.

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The White Power Movement

Elaine Landau

This book explores the origins and development of racist hate groups in the United States, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the skinheads.

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Drummers of Jericho

Carolyn Meyer

A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of

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The Road to Memphis

Mildred D. Taylor

Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.

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