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STOLEN JUSTICE

THE STRUGGLE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTING RIGHTS

by Lawrence Goldstone

(Scholastic Focus, 1/7/20)

9781338323481

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Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army of occupation. Yet, even that was not enough to ensure that African American voices would be heard, or their lives protected. White supremacists loudly and intentionally prevented black Americans from voting -- and they were willing to kill to do so. In this vivid portrait of the systematic suppression of the African American vote, critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone traces the injustices of the post-Reconstruction era through the eyes of incredible individuals, both heroic and barbaric, and examines the legal cases that made the Supreme Court a partner of white supremacists in the rise of Jim Crow. Though this is a story of America's past, Goldstone brilliantly draws direct links to today's creeping threats to suffrage in this important and, alas, timely book.

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New from Scholastic Focus, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Tonya Bolden, Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, an illustrated history for young readers.

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The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming

The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming.  Scholastic Focus, 2024. 9781338749571 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4.5 Format: ARC (publication date 3/5/24) What did you like about the book?  This book is a fantastic look at a world that was kept secret for many decades. The Enigma Girls is about “how ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win world war II”. Step by…

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The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joshua M. Greene

The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joshua M. Greene. Scholastic Focus, 2024. 9781338880519  Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: ARC (publication 4/16/24) hardcover What did you like about the book? Though this book covers a difficult subject in a way appropriate for middle grade readers, it is done without getting into details of…

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Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II by Deborah Hopkinson

Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II by Deborah Hopkinson. Scholastic Focus, 2023. 9781338746167 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Paperback ARC, published April 2023 What did you like about the book? So much is written about World War II as it occurred in Europe, about the Nazis and the Holocaust, but much less is written about what occurred in…

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The Beekeepers: How Humans Changed the World of Bumble Bees by Dana L. Church

The Beekeepers: How Humans Changed the World of Bumble Bees by Dana L. Church

The Beekeepers: How Humans Changed the World of Bumble Bees by Dana L. Church, Published by Scholastic Focus, 9781338565546, 2020 Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4 What did you like about the book? Looking for information about bumble bees, here is a text that will serve you well.  Laid out chapter by chapter, this text covers a myriad of topics…

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We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance - written by Deborah Hopkinson

We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance – written by Deborah Hopkinson

 We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance – written by Deborah Hopkinson, Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 9781338255775, 2021 Format: ARC (Hardcover available) Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5  What did you like about the book? I have seen many books about the Holocaust for the school-aged group of children, but this one seems very…

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Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education by Lawrence Goldstone

Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education by Lawrence Goldstone

   Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown v. Board of Education by Lawrence Goldstone, Scholastic Focus, 9781338592832, 2021 Format: ARC Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 What did you like about the book? Lawrence Goldstone starts his book with the lead up to the Plessy v. Ferguson case and takes the reader through a multi-stranded history. He demonstrates how Black American…

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