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| Title Statement | Rising from the ashes: Los Angeles, 1992 : Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a city on fire / Paula Yoo. |
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| Author | Yoo, Paula |
| Publication | New York: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company,[2024]©2024 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 358 pages |
| ISBN | 9781324030904 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07376314 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-343) and index. |
| Summary | "In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King, Los Angeles was torn apart. Thousands of fires were set, causing more than a billion dollars in damage. In neighborhoods abandoned by the police, protestors and storeowners exchanged gunfire. More than 12,000 people were arrested and 2,400 injured. Sixty-three died. In [this book], ... Paula Yoo draws on the experience of the city's Korean American community to narrate and illuminate this uprising, from the racism that created economically disadvantaged neighborhoods torn by drugs and gang-related violence, to the tensions between the city's minority communities. At its heart are the stories of three lives and three families: those of Rodney King; of Latasha Harlins, a Black teenager shot and killed by a Korean American storeowner; and Edward Jae Song Lee, a Korean American man killed in the unrest"-- |
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| Korean Americans--Juvenile literature--California--Los Angeles | |
| Police misconduct--Juvenile literature--California--Los Angeles | |
| Poor--Juvenile literature--California--Los Angeles | |
| Racism--Juvenile literature--California--Los Angeles | |
| Riots--Juvenile literature--California--Los Angeles | |
| Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992--Juvenile literature | |
| By Name | Harlins, Latasha |
| King, Rodney,1965-2012 | |
| By Location | Los Angeles (Calif.)--Juvenile literature--Race relations |
