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Tags Share The 1986 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Robert Norell for Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee and J. Anthony Lukas for Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, Common Ground recounts Boston’s busing crisis in the tumultuous…

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Tags Share Raymond Bonner received the 1985 RFK Book Award for Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy in El Salvador. A land and culture poorly understood by analysts, politicians, and voters in the far-off United States. A regime permeated with corruption; a country in the steel grip of a few families that disdained any system which…

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Tags Share The 1984 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Roger Rosenblatt for Children of War. Based on a Special Report Rosenblatt wrote for Time magazine, Children of War reveals the beliefs, hopes, and fears of children caught in the fury of war through on-the-spot interviews with children in five war zones: Northern…

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Tags Share The 1983 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Stephen B. Oates for Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. The book is a brilliant examination of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., that portrays a very real man and his dream that shaped America’s history. Stephen…

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Tags Share The 1981 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to William H. Chafe for Civilities and Civil Rights. The book reveals how whites in Greensboro, North Carolina, used the traditional Southern concept of “civility” as a means of keeping black protest in check and how, as a result, black activists continually devised new…

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Tags Share The 1982 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Peter S. Prescott for The Child Savers. The Child Savers is hailed as a definitive analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Platt’s principal argument is that the “child savers” movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but…

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Tags Share Alessandra Korap Munduruku, 36, is a human rights defender and leader of the Munduruku people of the Tapajós River Middle Course. Born in the village of Praia do Índio, in the municipality of Itaituba (Pará) in the Brazilian Amazon region, she taught early childhood education from 2014 to 2015 and was the coordinator…

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Tags Share The Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley are a collective group of women from South Texas who provide emergency assistance to asylum seekers at ports of entry and bus stations along the U.S.-Mexico border. The group aims to offer food, water, clothing, toiletries, logistical support, and cash funds when needed…

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Tags Share The Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee (DMSC) reunites families by assisting in paying bonds to release detained immigrants and helping them to avoid exploitative bail bond lenders, which improves their chances in immigration court. They are respected liberation activists in the region who work to challenge the inhumanity of the U.S. migrant detention system…

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Tags Share Founded in 1989 by farmworker movement leaders Dolores Huerta and César Chávez, and established in the Rio Grande Valley in 2003, La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) is a community-based union that serves the colonias and low-income neighborhoods of Hidalgo County through community organizing and social services. LUPE also works to fight deportations…

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Tags Share High School Print The Drug Crisis Nighthawk News Magazine of First Flight High School Kayla Hallac, Maren Ingram, Maggie McNinch, Taylor Newton, Kira Walters, Joey Krieg, Olivia Sugg, Fiona Finchem High School Broadcast Book Ban Eagle Nation News of Prosper High School Mithra Cama College Journalism Allies Welcome Columbia University Shakeeb Asrar, Tavleen…

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