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Race Relations
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Peace Treaty
Moore, Ruth Nolton
1976   153 p.   Ages: 9-12
  

A young Moravian boy, captured by native Americans near Fort Duquesne, realizes he can use his faith to promote peace.

Pink and Say
Polacco, Patricia
1994      Ages: 8-11
ISBN: 0399226710
  
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Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by southern troops. Sobering content.

Playing Fair: Anti-Racism Series

1992   4-15 min. sections   Ages: 7-12
  

A series of dramas to introduce discussion about racism's effects. Sections touch on white privilege, name-calling, cultural difference, exclusion, and friendship. Well-acted.

Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
Meltzer, Milton
1988   168 p.   Ages: 10-Adult
ISBN: 0064461173
  
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In the horror that was the Holocaust, some human decency could still shine through. Stories accompanied by maps.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor, Mildred
1976   276 p.   Ages: 10-14
ISBN: 014034893X
  
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An African-American family living in the south during the 1930's is faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.

Set Free: A Journey Toward Solidarity Against Racism.
de Leon-Hartshorn, Iris, et al.
2001   166 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 0836191579
  
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Chapters on naming the problem, systems and powers, wholeness, "whiteness," and how people of color and European-Americans can benefit from each other.

Shadow of Hate

      Ages: 18-Adult
  

The "Shadow of Hate" chronicles episodes of intolerance throughout U.S. history — from the plights of Quakers in colonial New England to the 1991 riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. The kit includes the video “Shadow of Hate”, the text "Us and Them", and a teacher's guide.

Curriculum Kits available free at: www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp


Show Way
Woodson,Jacqueline
2005   40 p.   Ages: 6-10
ISBN:0399237496
  
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Jacqueline, an African-American writer, goes back 6 generations to tell about her female ancestors, beginning with Soonie's great-grandma, who at age seven, " was sold from the Virginia land to a plantation in South Carolina without her ma or pa but with some muslin her ma had given her." Sewing, "show way" quilts, creativity, education and the arts are part of the rich heritage traced down through the generations to today. The illustrations, with quilt patterns and detailed historical information, complement the text and create a real treasure. Read this book along with Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne.

The Sign of the Beaver
Speare, Elizabeth George
1984   144 p.   Ages: 8-12
ISBN: 0440479002
  
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When his father returns East to collect the rest of the family, 13-year-old Matt is left alone to guard his family's newly built homestead. One day, Matt is brutally stung when he robs a bee tree for honey. He returns to consciousness to discover that his many stings have been treated by an old Native American and his grandson. Matt offers his only book as thanks, but the old man instead asks Matt to teach his grandson Attean to read. Both boys are suspicious, but Attean comes each day for his lesson. In the mornings, Matt tries to entice Attean with tales from Robinson Crusoe, while in the afternoons, Attean teaches Matt about wilderness survival and Native American culture. The boys become friends in spite of themselves, and their inevitable parting is a moving tribute to the ability of shared experience to overcome prejudice.

The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism
Thomas, Pat
   32 p.   Ages: 4-8
ISBN: 0764124595
  
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This title encourages kids to accept and be comfortable with differences of skin color and other racial characteristics among their friends and in themselves. Written by a psychotherapist and child counselor with direct language that makes sense to younger kids. Each title also features a guide for parents on how to use the book, a glossary, suggested additional reading, and a list of resources. Full-color illustrations.

Smoky Night
Bunting, Eve
1995      Ages: 5-10
ISBN: 0152018840
  
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A story about people (and cats) who couldn't get along, until riots brought them closer.

Sounder
Armstrong, William
1969   116 p.   Ages: 9-12
ISBN: 0064400204
  
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A young boy, with his devoted dog, finds out what it is like to be poor while his father is in jail.

The Tainos: The People Who Welcomed Columbus
Jacobs, Francine
1992   117 p.   Ages: 9-14
  

Columbus and the Europeans who followed him enslaved the Tainos to satisfy Europe's hunger for gold. This book also tells of the Christian missionaries who provide us a prophetic example.

There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America
Harding, Vincent
1993   472 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 0156890895
  
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A great black river surges in opposition to the powerful currents of slavery and racism: This is black history--American history told well by Vincent Harding. From an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the well-known members of the struggle--Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, HarrietTubman--and the anonymous as well. 24 pages of photos.

Harding’s is a well researched and well presented picture of the opposing forces to America's economic system based on slave and cheap labor. He chronicles the parallel between the systems of oppression and the systems of resistance against oppression. The River of resistance will forever run through a society where opportunity is squelched by the formation of inequality. (Adapted from Amazon reviews.)


Thurgood Marshall: First African American Supreme Court Justice
Greene, Carol
1991   47 p.   Ages: 5-7
  

Examines the life of the first African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

True Colors
ABC
1989   19 min.   Ages: 13-Adult
  

This edition of ABC'S "Prime Time" follows two men, equal in all measurable aspects except that one is black and one white, as they look for housing, go to buy a car, apply for a job. Reveals the stark nature of racism in the U.S. (Study guide available.)

The Unforgettable Pen Pal: A Story About Prejudice and Discrimination
Berry, Joy
1989   28 min.   Ages: 5-8
ISBN: 0923790306
  
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An animated video showing a group of upper-elementary students learning about discrimination through A.J's experience with a pen pal and their chance to meet each other at a basketball game.

Uprooting Racism
Kivel, Paul
2002   271 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
  

A book for white people about addressing one’s own racism. Includes: “I’m not a racist”; the dynamics of racism; being allies; the effects of history; fighting institutional racism; multicultural competence.

Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story of Sojourner Truth
Ferris, Jeri
1988   64 p.   Ages: 8-12
ISBN: 0876145055
  
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Traces the life of the African-American woman orator who spoke out against slavery in the north.

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Lewis, John and Michael D'Orso
1999   496 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 0156007088
  
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John Lewis is an American hero, a modest man from the most humble of beginnings who left a rural Alabama cotton farm 40 years ago and strode into the forefront of the civil rights movement. One of the young people who brought the teachings of Ghandi and King to the lunch counters of Nashville in 1960, Lewis suffered taunts and threats, beatings and arrests. He spoke at the historic 1963 March on Washington and became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The nation, tuned to the nightly news, watched in horror as state troopers clubbed him viciously, fracturing his skull as he led a march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Today, he's the only member of Congress who can be proud of having been carried off to jail more than 40 times. With the help of a collaborator, journalist Michael D'Orso, Lewis' Walking with the Wind is a deeply moving personal memoir that skillfully balances the intimate and touching recollections of the deeply thoughtful Lewis with the intense national drama that was the civil rights movement.

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