Tolerance, Equality, and Diversity
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
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.
Physical Non-Fiction Books
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
KY Libraries Unbound e-Books and e-Audiobooks
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.
KY Libraries Unbound Lists
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