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Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools Ghost boys A good kind of trouble and lessons that would lead her on to found one of by Jewell Parker Rhodes the most powerful movements - by Lisa Moore Ramée TWEEN Parker-Rhodes #BlackLivesMatter- in the world. After attending a powerful protest, After seventh-grader Jerome is shot Shayla starts wearing an armband by a white police officer, he This side of home to school to support the Black Lives observes the aftermath of his death Matter movement, but when the and meets the ghosts of other fallen by Renée Watson school gives her an ultimatum, she black boys including historical Twins Nikki and Maya Younger is forced to choose between her figure Emmett Till. always agreed on most things, but education and her identity. as they head into their senior year they react differently to the I am Alfonso Jones March. 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A first-hand graphic novel account Alfonso Jones travels in a New of the author's lifelong struggle for York subway car full of the living On the come up civil and human rights continues and the dead, watching his family to cover his involvement in the and friends fight for justice after by Angie Thomas Freedom Vote and Mississippi he is killed by an off-duty police A follow-up to the award-winning Freedom Summer campaigns, and the Selma to officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department The Hate U Give finds an Montgomery march. store. ambitious young rapper pouring her frustrations into a first song only to find herself at the center of Dear Martin One person, no vote : how a viral controversy that forces her by Nic Stone not all voters are treated to become the menace that her Profiled by a racist police officer in equally public reputation has portrayed her to be. spite of his excellent academic by Carol Anderson achievements and Ivy League Stamped : racism, acceptance, a disgruntled college 324.62 AND / TEEN youth navigates the prejudices of In gripping, enlightening detail antiracism, and you new classmates and his crush on a Anderson explains how voter by Jason Reynolds white girl by writing a journal to suppression works, from photo ID 305.8 REY / TEEN Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the hopes that his requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And A history of racist and antiracist iconic role model's teachings will be applicable half a with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the ideas in America, from their roots century later. organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the in Europe until today. basic right to vote to all Americans..