Tolerance, equality and diversity: these three words reflect the core values of our culture. We at PCPL, are providing a list of resources to promote these core values and strengthen communities.
“Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.” ~ Robert Boyce
General Resources
American Public Health Association (APHA)
Anti-Defamation League
Color of Change
Human Rights Campaign – Hate Crimes
Institute for Religious Tolerance, Peace, and Justice
Know Your Rights Camp
Live Free USA
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Bail Out Collective
Partners Against Hate
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Hate and Extremism
Society for Human Resource Management – Diversity and Inclusion
The Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University
The Leadership Conference
The Loveland Foundation
The Marshall Project
United Nations – Protect Human Rights Page
Resources for Educators, Parents, and Families
Educators Against Hate
Protecting Students from Harassment and Hate Crime: A Guide for Schools
Preventing Youth Hate Crime: A Manual for Schools and Communities
Teaching Tolerance
Resources for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors
A Policymaker’s Guide to Hate Crimes
American Civil Liberties Union
Law Enforcement Against Hate
National Criminal Justice Reference Service – Hate Crime Training Resources
Promising Practices Against Hate Crimes
PCPL is aware of the limited number of physical resources that we have available regarding this subject and are currently working to increase those resources.
Our physical nonfiction books include:
• Our town : a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of white America / Cynthia Carr.
• Black Klansman : race, hate, and the undercover investigation of a lifetime / Ron Stallworth.
• Racial violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940 : lynchings, mob rule, and “legal lynchings” / George C. Wright.
• Black southerners, 1619-1869 / John B. Boles.
• Black like me / John Howard Griffin.
• Slaves in the family / Edward Ball.
• A history of Blacks in Kentucky : from slavery to segregation, 1760-1891 / Marion B. Lucas.
• By duty bound : survival and redemption in a time of war / Ezell Ware, Jr., and Joel Engel.
• Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
We also have a number of e-books and e-audiobooks available through KY Libraries Unbound. Some, but not all, titles include:
• America’s Original Sin : Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America / Jim Wallis.
• Racial Profiling : Everyday Inequality / Alison Marie Behnke.
• Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You / Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.
• Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor / by Layla F. Saad.
• White Fragility : Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism / by Robin DiAngelo.
• How to Be an Antiracist / by Ibram X. Kendi.
• Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• On the Road to Freedom / by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
• Tears We Cannot Stop : A Sermon to White America / by Michael Eric Dyson.
• Death of Innocence : The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America / by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson.
• Blood at the Root : A Racial Cleansing in America / by Patrick Phillips.
• The New Jim Crow / by Michelle Alexander.
• Blindspot : Hidden Biases of Good People / by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald.
The following lists from KY Libraries Unbound may be of interest as well:
• Adult African American Nonfiction: https://kyunbound.overdrive.com/search?subject=111&subject=102&sortBy=newlyadded
• Adult African American Fiction: https://kyunbound.overdrive.com/search?subject=26&subject=41&sortBy=newlyadded
• Juvenile African American Nonfiction: https://kyunbound.overdrive.com/search?subject=45&subject=102&sortBy=newlyadded
• Juvenile African American Fiction: https://kyunbound.overdrive.com/search?subject=43&subject=41&sortBy=newlyadded
• Young Adult African American Nonfiction: https://kyunbound.overdrive.com/search?subject=128&subject=102&sortBy=newlyadded
• Young Adult African American Fiction: https://kyunbound.overdrive.com/search?subject=127&subject=41&sortBy=newlyadded
Hoopla Resources
Conversations About Race
Conversations About Race: Key Titles for Adults
Conversations About Race: Key Titles for Young Adults