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21) Hotel Rwanda
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A five-star-hotel manager in Rwanda risks his life when he opens his hotel to more than a thousand Tutsis refugees in order to protect them from death.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of September 11, 2001, New York City's National Guard regiment, the Fighting 69th Infantry, was not fit for duty. Most of its soldiers were immigrant kids with no military experience and no intention of serving their country very long. Once an all-Irish outfit, the 69th was now a mix of Latinos, African Americans, Eastern European Americans, Asian Americans, and a few token Irish Americans. Their uniforms were incomplete and their equipment...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
This classic volume of reportage by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and journalist examines the racial tensions that erupted in the Red Summer of 1919.
In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago's public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off demands for those white men to be arrested, riots broke out...
In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago's public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off demands for those white men to be arrested, riots broke out...
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