Book Connections | Civil Rights Teaching: Children’s and Young Adult Titles

March Book One

by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

by Duncan Tonatiuh

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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

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One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia

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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales

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Rosa

by Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Phillip Hoose

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Stella by Starlight

by Sharon M. Draper and Sarah Jane Coleman

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The Other Side

by Jacqueline Woodson and E.B. Lewis

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We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

by Kadir Nelson

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley , and P.J. Loughran

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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

by Cynthia Y. Levinson

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Revolution

by Deborah Wiles

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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie

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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

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A Sweet Smell of Roses

by Angela Johnson and Eric Velasquez

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The Rock and the River

by Kekla Magoon

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Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary

by Elizabeth Partridge

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The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano

by Sonia Manzano

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As Fast as Words Could Fly

by Pamela M. Tuck and Eric Velasquez

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New Shoes

by Susan Lynn Meyer and Eric Velasquez

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Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

by Walter Dean Myers and Leonard Jenkins

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Ruth and the Green Book

by Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Floyd Cooper

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Girl from the Tar Paper School, The: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

by Teri Kanefield

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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Stephen Alcorn

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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

by Russell Freedman

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Birmingham, 1963

by Carole Boston Weatherford

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Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told

by Walter Dean Myers and Bonnie Christensen

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I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Walter Dean Myers and Leonard Jenkins

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The Story of Ruby Bridges

by Robert Coles and George Ford

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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

by Melba Pattillo Beals

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Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961

by Larry Dane Brimner

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Remember: The Journey to School Integration

by Toni Morrison

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Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America

by Tonya Bolden

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Black Panthers, The: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution

The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution

by Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams

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Sylvia & Aki

by Winifred Conkling

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White Water

by Michael S. Bandy, Eric Stein, and Shadra Strickland

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Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America

by Russell Freedman

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Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington

by Jacqueline Houtman, Michael G. Long, and Walter Naegle

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Ride to Remember, A: A Civil Rights Story

A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story

by Sharon Langley, Amy Nathan, and Floyd Cooper

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Mississippi Bridge

by Mildred D. Taylor and Max Ginsburg

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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue

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Child of the Civil Rights Movement

by Paula Young Shelton and Raúl Colón

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We March

by Shane W. Evans

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Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York

by Amy Hill Hearth

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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

by Ellen Levine

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Civil Rights Teaching: Children’s and Young Adult Titles

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