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1) All involved
Author
Language
English
Description
"At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted two Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue civilian Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a third officer. Less than two hours later, the city of LA, a powder keg of racial tension, exploded in violence as people took to the streets in a terrifying orgy of rioting that lasted six days. In 144 hours, sixty lives were lost....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up tothe 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
3) Smoky night
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
5) Kings
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Millie Dunbar is a foster parent who looks after her many children in Los Angeles in 1992. After the verdict from the Rodney King Incident is revealed, the city quickly begins to descend into all-out chaos between its denizens and the police. Now, Millie must protect her children from the ensuing anarchy and erupting violence all while navigating the precarious waters of police violence and finding justice for her family.
Author
Series
Daughters of Bainbridge House volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an accident brings an end to her betrothal, Cassandra Bainbridge heads for the English countryside to recover, but when her former fiancé slips back into her life, she must choose between tradition and her dreams.
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive. But when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brilliant, exhilarating debut novel that retells The Odyssey during the 1965 Watts Riots-like nothing you've ever read before
It's August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The Riots are attributed as the spark that ignited the LGBTQ+ Movement. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots,...
11) Detroit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[French or Spanish subtitled version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1968: in that single year, MLK and RFK were assassinated, Chicago rioted, Nixon triumphed, and Tet exploded. The top music acts were the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye. Man circled the Moon. From Civil Rights to Vietnam, from rock & roll to rocket science, 1968 stands out as a concentrated dose of everything we think of as the Sixties.
13) The last castle
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to a maximum security military prison, The Castle. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter, who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the...
14) Enforcement
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Jens and Mike, two police officers, are on routine patrol in a massive housing project when the news of a nineteen-year-old's death under police custody spreads. As the community's rage boils over and its youth seek revenge, the two officers find themselves trapped in a maze of buildings and of mounting conflict, fighting tooth and nail to find a way out.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray wasin a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately...
18) The black kids
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on new sources, a leading scholar presents a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots" that shatters our understanding of the post-civil rights era, arguing that we cannot understand the civil rights moment without coming to terms with the astonishing violence, and hugely expanded policing regime, that followed it.
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