Better than we found it : conversations to help save the world by Joseph, Frederick 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 501142 Available

Dewey: 320/NAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 1170

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Subjects: Social change Political activists Social problems

Summary: The challenges facing the next generation can feel insurmountable. But change, even revolution, is possible; you just have to know where to start. A guide to social and political activism for young people and anyone wanting to get more involved.

Freedom! : the story of the Black Panther Party by Martin, Jetta Grace 

BTSB Prebound(Levine Querido, 2022)

BTSB #: 606586 Available

Dewey: 323/NAges: 12-16   


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Subjects: Black Panther Party - History African Americans - Politics and government|y20th century African Americans - Civil rights - History|y20th century Civil rights movements - United States - History|y20th century African Americans - Politics and government|y20th century United States - Race relations - History|y20th century

Summary: A young reader's adaptation of Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, chronicling how the socialist organization sought power through the Black Freedom Movement by promoting Black nationalism.

Heartbeat of Wounded Knee : life in Native America by Treuer, David 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2022)

BTSB #: 889910 Available

Dewey: 970.004/NAges: 12-18   
Lexile: 1120

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Subjects: Native Americans - North America - History|y20th century Native Americans - North America - Social conditions|y20th century

Summary: Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated--if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today--and the fight to preserve language and traditions.

Murder among friends : how Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the perfect crime by Fleming, Candace 

BTSB Prebound(Anne Schwartz Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 341184 Available

Dewey: 364/CAges: 14-18   
Lexile: 850

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Subjects: Homicide Trials (Homicide) - Illinois College students Jews - Biography Wealth Chicago (Ill.) - History|y20th century

Summary: In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. Depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty.

Overground railroad : the Green book and the roots of black travel in America by Taylor, Candacy A. 

BTSB Prebound(Amulet Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 873612 Available

Dewey: 305.8009/NAges: 12-16   
F&P: Z

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Subjects: Automobile travel - United States - Guidebooks African Americans - Segregation - History|y20th century African Americans - Travel - United States - History|y20th century United States - Race relations - History|y20th century United States - Social conditions|y20th century

Summary: A young reader's edition of Candacy Taylor's acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America."

Seen and unseen : what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adam' photographs reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration by Partridge, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 702456 Available

Dewey: 940.53/NAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 990 F&P: Z

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Subjects: Miyatake, Toyo Lange, Dorothea Adams, Ansel Manzanar War Relocation Center United States.|bWar Relocation Authority.|bPhotography Section Japanese Americans - Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945 - Photography World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - California - Manzanar

Summary: Examines the Japanese-American incarceration--and the complexity of documenting it--through the work of legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams who all photographed the events with different approaches and different results.

Victory. Stand! : raising my fist for justice by Smith, Tommie 

Paperback(Norton Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 827238 Available

Dewey: 796.4209/AAges: 13-18   
AR: 5.9 UG

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Subjects: Smith, Tommie,|d1944- Olympic Games|n(19th :|d1968 : - Mexico City, Mexico) Track and field athletes - United States - Biography African American athletes - Biography African American athletes - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc

Summary: A groundbreaking and timely memoir in graphic novel format from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics.