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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
The World Needs More Purple People
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice
37 Children’s Books to help talk about Racism & Discrimination
Inclusion
LGBTQ Books Common Sense Media
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Equity
Race Relations: The Struggle for Equality in America
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness
The Youngest Marcher The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks
Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
37 Children’s Books to help talk about Racism & Discrimination
Oh, The Things I Can Be When I See Me
Inclusion
Rainbow Library LGBTQ+ Ebooks list
10 LGBTQ+ Books for Every Child’s Bookshelf Scholastic
LGBTQ Books Common Sense Media
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Equity
Race Relations: The Struggle for Equality in America
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Black Boy: Richard Wright autobiography
An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List by Publishers Weekly
37 Children’s Books to help talk about Racism & Discrimination
Inclusion
Rainbow Library LGBTQ+ Ebooks list
LGBTQ Books Common Sense Media
10 LGBTQ+ Books for Every Child’s Bookshelf Scholastic
Gender Identity: Beyond Pronouns and Bathrooms
Feminism: The March Toward Equal Rights for Women
Immigration Nation: The American Identity in the Twenty-First Century
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Equity
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences
The Sisters Are Alright CHANGING THE BROKEN NARRATIVE OF BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
So You Want to Talk About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
And Still I Rise A BOOK OF POEMS
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