Brown v. Board of Education : a fight for simple justice by Rubin, Susan Goldman 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2016)

BTSB #: 769393 Available

Dewey: 344.73/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.1 MG Lexile: 980

Genres:

Subjects: Brown, Oliver,|d1918-1961 - Trials, litigation, etc Topeka (Kan.).|bBoard of Education - Trials, litigation, etc Segregation in education - Law and legislation - United States African Americans - Civil rights

Summary: In 1954 one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the 20th Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Tells the stories behind the ruling and the people responsible for it.

Dear Ruby, hear our hearts by Bridges, Ruby 

BTSB Prebound(Orchard Books, 2024)

BTSB #: 150528 Available

Dewey: 379.2/NAges: 5-7   
Lexile: 810

Genres:

Subjects: Bridges, Ruby - Correspondence African Americans - Civil rights Civil rights workers - United States Civil rights movements - United States Self-confidence

Summary: A compilation of letters from concerned young students about today's issues, including bullying, climate change, gun violence, and racism. Reading Ruby's intuitive and inspirational responses, young readers will embrace the courage to be brave, bold, and confident.

Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party's promise to the people by Magoon, Kekla 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 596689 Available

Dewey: 305.8/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 9.2 MG

Genres:

Subjects: Black Panther Party African Americans - Civil rights Marxism Socialism Social action Race relations

Summary: Introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens.

Unequal : a story of America by Dyson, Michael Eric 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 299358 Available

Dewey: 323.1/NAges: 12-18   


Genres:

Subjects: African Americans - Civil rights Civil rights workers - United States - Biography Civil rights movements - United States - History|y20th century United States - Race relations

Summary: Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality.

We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Levinson, Cynthia 

Paperback(Peachtree, 2015)

BTSB #: 567477 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1020 F&P: Y

Genres:

Subjects: African Americans - Civil rights Civil rights movements - Alabama - History|y20th century

Summary: The inspiring story of one of the greatest moments in Civil Rights history as seen through the eyes of four young people who were right in the middle of it.

What is Black Lives Matter? [Who HQ Now]by Wilson, Lakita 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2021)

BTSB #: 955316 Available

Dewey: 305.896/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6 MG Lexile: 960 F&P: Z

Genres:

Subjects: Black lives matter movement African Americans - Civil rights African Americans - Social conditions Race relations

Summary: Tells the history of an international political and social movement that protests racially motivated violence against black people.

What is Black Lives Matter? [Who HQ Now]by Wilson, Lakita 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin Workshop, 2021)

BTSB #: 955319 Available

Dewey: 305.896/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6 MG Lexile: 960 F&P: Z

Genres:

Subjects: Black lives matter movement African Americans - Civil rights African Americans - Social conditions Race relations

Summary: Tells the history of an international political and social movement that protests racially motivated violence against black people.

What was the March on Washington? [What Was?]by Krull, Kathleen 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2013)

BTSB #: 533317 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 6.1 MG RC: 6.2 3-5 Lexile: 900

Genres:

Subjects: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|d(1963 : - Washington, D.C.) Civil rights demonstrations - Washington (D.C.) - History|y20th century African Americans - Civil rights

Summary: On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the momentous civil rights laws of the mid-1960s.