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Curriculum Collection at Lewis Library: Black History/Civil Rights

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Black History/Civil Rights Navigation

Contents

Fiction/Picture Books

Non-fiction/Informational Texts

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Struggles Around the World

Fiction/Chapter Books

90 Picture Books for 90 Years of Black History Celebrations
A list posted to the Association for Library Service to Children blog

Marching On: Selected Books about the Civil Rights Movement for Children and Teens
The body of work for children and teens about the African American Civil Rights Movement from the late 1940s to through the 1960s is rich and varied. This bibliography highlights selected titles for kindergarten through high school. It is organized by broad grade range. Because many books overlap the elementary and middle school, and many more overlap middle and high school, look at the specific age recommendations on each book for additional guidelines. Compiled by Megan Schliesman and Merri Lindgren. © 2013 Cooperative Children's Book Center.

Fiction/Picture Books

Alec's Primer by Mildred Pitts Walter; Larry Johnson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .W17125 Al 2004
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the first day of freedom by Angela Johnson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.J629 All 2014
The Cart That Carried Martin by Eve Bunting; Don Tate (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97.K5 B785 2013
A Dance Like Starlight: one ballerina's dream by Kristy Dempsey; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.D41136 Dan 2014
Ellen's Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons; Daniel Minter (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .L995545 Ell 2012
Finding Lincoln by Ann Malaspina; Colin Bootman (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .M28955 Fi 2009
Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro sit-ins by Carole Boston Weatherford; Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .W3535 Fr 2005
Gordon Parks: how the photographer captured black and white America by Carole Boston Weatherford; Jamey Christoph (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) TR140.P35 W43 2015
Granddaddy's Turn: a journey to the ballot box by Michael S. Bandy; Eric Stein; James Ransome (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.B22125 Gr 2015
The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield; Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PS3557 .R39416 G74 2011

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I Am Jackie Robinson by Brad Meltzer; Christopher Eliopoulos (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) GV865.R6 M45 2015
I Lay My Stitches Down: poems of American slavery by Cynthia Grady; Michele Wood (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS3607.R3275 I15 2012
I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS3515 .U274 I3 2012
January's Sparrow by Patricia Polacco (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .P75186 Jan 2009
Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.C78485 Ju 2015
Keep On!: the story of Matthew Henson, co-discoverer of the North Pole by Deborah Hopkinson; Stephen Alcorn (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) G635 .H4 H67 2009
Let Them Play by Margot Theis Raven; Chris Ellison (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) GV880.5 .R38 2005
Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.W75477 Lil 2015
Martin and Mahalia: his words, her song by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Artist)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97 .K5 P54 2013
More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby; Chris K. Soentpiet
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ 7 .B7175 Mo 1995
Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack; Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7.5 .M45 Ne 2011
The Price of Freedom: how one town stood up to slavery by Dennis Brindell Fradin; Judith Bloom Fradin; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E450 .F784 2013
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller; Gregory R. Christie (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .M63915 Ri 1997b
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey with Gwen Strauss
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .R145 Ru 2010
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) LC214.2 .T66 2014
Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Artist)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E185.61 .P596 2010

ISBN: 9780316070164
Steamboat School: inspired by a true story : St. Louis, Missouri: 1847 by Deborah Hopkinson; Ron Husband (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.H778125 Su 2016
These Hands by Margaret H. Mason; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .M4138 Th 2010
Underground by Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E450 .E94 2011
Unspoken - A Story from the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .C67345 Un 2012
What Color Is My World?: the lost history of African-American inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Raymond Obstfeld; Ben Boos (Illustrator); A. G. Ford (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .A1589337 Wh 2012
White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman; Tyrone Geter (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ 7 .C6746 Wh 1996
White Water: inspired by a true story by Michael S. Bandy; Eric Stein; Shadra Strickland (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .B22125 Wh 2011
Who Owns the Sun? by Stacy Chbosky
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .C3973 Wh 1988
The Youngest Marcher: the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist by Cynthia Levinson; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F334.B653 H465 2017

Fiction/Chapter Books

Call Me by My Name by John Ed Bradley
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.B72466 Cal 2014
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .D78325 Cop 2006
Crow by Barbara Wright
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.W932 Cr 2012
Etched in Clay: The life of Dave, enslaved potter and poet by Andrea Cheng
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) NK4210 .D247 C54 2013
Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .M2739 Fir 2012
Jump into the Sky by Shelley Pearsall
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .P3166 Jum 2012
Kizzy Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.W337 Kiz 2012
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.L57842 Lio 2012
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .M2739 Ro 2009
The Story of Juneteenth: an interactive history adventure by Steven Otfinoski
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.93.T4 O85 2015
X: a novel by Ilyasah Shabazz; Kekla Magoon
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.1.S47 Xan 2015

Non-Fiction/Informational Texts

12 Questions about Slave Narratives by Lois Sepahban
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E444 .S47 2017
28 Days: moments in Black history that changed the world by Charles R. Smith; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185 .S5812 2015
Abina and the Important Men by Trevor R. Getz; Liz Clarke
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) KRX46 .M36 G48 2012
African American Scientists and Inventors by Tish Davidson
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) Q141 .D29 2013
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton; Don Tate (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E664.L985 B27 2015
Barack by Jonah Winter; A. G. Ford (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E901.1 .O23 W57 2008
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor by Larry Dane Brimner
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) F334 .B657 B75 2011
Black Cowboys of the Old West by Tricia Martineau Wagner
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) (F596 .W25 2011
Black Heroes of the American Revolution by Burke Davis
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E 269 .N3 D383 1991
Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.86 .E29 2016
Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights by Rich Wallace
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.98.D3 W35 2016
The Book Itch: freedom, truth & Harlem's greatest bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.N43773 Boo 2015
Booker T. Washington and Education by John Wukovits
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E185.97 .W4 W85 2008
Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute by Budd Bailey
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97.W37 B35 2017
Change Has Come: an artist celebrates our American spirit by Barack Obama; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E908.3 .N45 2009
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F334 .S4 S54 2010
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Robert H. Mayer
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) KF4749 .C58 2004
The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: a history with 21 activities by Mary C. Turck; Mary Turck
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.61 .T925 2000
Claudette Colvin: twice toward justice by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F334 .M753 C6554 2009
Coretta Scott King and the Center for Nonviolent Social Change by Jackie F. Stanmyre
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97.K47 S73 2017
Courage Has No Color - The True Story of the Triple Nickles by Tanya Lee Stone
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) D769.348 555th .S76 2013
Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre by Lynne Weiss
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97.A86 W45 2014
Discovering Black America: from the age of exploration to the twenty-first century by Linda Tarrant-Reid
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185 .T198 2012
Fifty Cents and a Dream: young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim; Bryan Collier (Artist)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97 .W4 A85 2012
Fort Mosé: and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in colonial America by Glennette Tilley Turner
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) F319 .F734 T87 2010
Frederick's Journey: the life of Frederick Douglass by Doreen Rappaport; London Ladd (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E449.D75 R37 2015
Freedom Riders: a primary source exploration of the struggle for racial justice by Heather E. Schwartz; Kathryn Clay (General Editor)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.61 .S396 2015
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E185.96 .B355 2006
Freedom Summer: the 1964 struggle for civil rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.93.M6 R83 2014
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.93.M6 M58 2014
John Lewis and Desegregation by Gerry Boehme
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E840.8.L43 B64 2017
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement by Benny Andrews (Illustrator); Kathleen Benson; Jim Haskins
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E840.8 .L43 H37 2006
Hand in Hand: ten Black men who changed America by Andrea Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.86 .P56 2012
Heart and Soul: the story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185 .N427 2011
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Crusade Against Lynching by Alison Morretta
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97.W55 M67 2017
In the Shadow of Liberty: the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five black lives by Kenneth C. Davis
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E444 .D36 2016
Let It Shine: stories of Black women freedom fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Stephen Alcorn (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.96 .P5 2000
Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration by Shelley Tougas
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) LC214.23 .L56 T68 2012
Martin Luther King Jr. and Peaceful Protest by Kelly Spence
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97.K5 S67 2016
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Dianne M. MacMillan
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E185.97 .K5 M25 1992
My Name Is Henry Bibb: a story of slavery and freedom by Afua Cooper
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .C66 M9 2009
No Crystal Stair: a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .N43773 N6 2012
No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E185.97 .R93 M55 2005
Passenger on the Pearl by Winifred Conkling
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E445.D6 C66 2015
Philip Reid Saves the Statue of Freedom by Steven Sellers Lapham; Eugene Walton
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E340.R45 L37 2014
Poet: the remarkable story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS1999.H473 Z88 2015
The Port Chicago 50: disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) D810.N4 S44 2014
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F334.M753 P3883 2013
Remember Little Rock: the time, the people, the stories by Paul Robert Walker
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) LC214.23 .L56 W35 2009
Rosa Parks and Civil Disobedience by Alison Morretta
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F334.M753 P38558 2017
Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup by Dennis Brindell Frandin; Judith Bloom Fradin
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E444 .N87 F73 2012
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles; George Ford (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F 379 .N59 N33 1995
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F379 .N59 N435 1999
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery; Elspeth Leacock (Retold by); Susan Buckley (Retold by); P. J. Loughran (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F334.S4 L69 2015
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights by Russell Freedman
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) ML3930 .A5 F73 2004
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's war against slavery by Albert Marrin
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E451 .M352 2014
We Shall Overcome: the story of a song by Debbie Levy; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) ML3561.W45 L48 2013
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Y. Levinson
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) F334 .B69 N4476 2012

Poetry

Carver: a life in poems by Marilyn Nelson
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS3573 .A4795 C37 2001
Freedom over Me: eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life by Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.B82887 Fr 2016
One Last Word: wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS3557.R489982 A6 2017
Poet: the remarkable story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS1999.H473 Z88 2015
When Thunder Comes: poems for civil rights leaders by J. Patrick Lewis; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator); Jim Burke (Illustrator); Tonya Engel (Illustrator); John Parra (Illustrator); Meilo So (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS3562.E9465 W38 2013
Words with Wings: a treasury of African-American poetry and art by Belinda Rochelle
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PS591 .N4 W67 2001

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Free at Last!: the story of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Angela Bull; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E185.97 .K5 B78 2000
Martin Luther King by Rosemary L. Bray; Malcah Zeldis (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E 185.97 .K5 B73 1995
Martin Luther King Jr. and Peaceful Protest by Kelly Spence
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E185.97.K5 S67 2016
Martin's Big Words: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E185.97 .K5 R36 2001
My Dream of Martin Luther King by Faith Ringgold
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E 185.97 .K5 R56 1995