Resources
Bibliography
BBC. The white Southerners who fought US segregation. BBC. March 12, 2019. Accessed July 17, 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47477354.
“Branches of the U.S. Government.” https://www.usa.gov/branches-of-government.
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.
Daniele, Kristina. Civil Rights Then & Now. Woodstock: Wendybird Press, 2018. This text is a teacher or parent reference book with information about the history of African-Americans from slavery to contemporary times. It details the people who have and are currently fighting for civil rights for African-Americans, as well as legislation related to this fight.
Ducksters.com. US Government: How Laws Are Made. Accessed July 15, 2020 https://www.ducksters.com/history/us_government/how_laws_are_made.ph.
Durham, Michael. Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc., 1991. This text chronicles the civil rights movement through a news photographer’s work.
Landau, Elaine. The Civil Rights Movement in America. New York: Scholastic, 2003.
Library of Congress. The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american-odyssey/reconstruction.html.
Meltzer, Milton. There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights. New York: Random House, 2001. This text examines the need and fight for African-American civil rights starting with slavery.
National Geographic. The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/black-codes-and-jim-crow-laws/.
PBS. Groups During the American Civil Rights Movement. PBS (Date not known). Accessed July 17, 2020. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eyesontheprize-groups-during-american-civil-rights-movement/.
Rochelle, Belinda. Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
Turck, Mary. The Civil Rights Movement for Kids. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2000. This text gives detailed information about the civil rights movement with corresponding activities for students.
Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.
Student Reading List
Celano, Marianne, Collins, Marietta & Hazzard, Ann. Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice. Washington, D.C.: Magination Press, 2018. This picture books explains racial injustices African-Americans experience and briefly explains slavery in a child-appropriate manner.
Bridges, Ruby. Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story. New York: Scholastic, 2009. This is the autobiography of Ruby Bridges with a focus on her integration of an all-White school in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Clark-Robinson, Monica. Let the Children March. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. A historical fiction picture book telling the story of the Birmingham Children’s Crusade in 1963.
Cricket Media, adapted by Newsela Staff. Children marched in the streets to help end segregation. Newsela. October 26, 2018. Accessed July 12, 2020. https://newsela.com/read/lib-children-birmingham-march/id/46058/?search_id=44eb53b1-4d52-4e53-8980-05d6849772ab.
Diesen, Deborah. Equality’s Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America. New York: Beach Lane Books, 2020. The history of voting legislation is told in this picture book.
Powell, Patricia. Lift As You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. This picture book tells the story of Ella Baker’s life and her role in the civil rights movement.
Rappaport, Doreen. Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
Shelton, Paula & Colon, Raul. Child of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Dragonfly Books, 2010. This picture book explains Jim Crow laws in child friendly terms and the demonstrations that took place to fight against those laws.
Weatherford, Carole. Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins. New York: Penguin Group, 2005. This picture books tells the story of the four college students who choose to sit-in at the lunch counter at a restaurant in Greensboro, NC.
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