Discussing Racism: a Curated Reading list for Elementary School Children
Baseball saved us by Ken Mochizuki
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The other side by Jacqueline Woodson
We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson
When I was eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton
The whispering town by Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Let's talk about race by Julius Lester
The colors of us by Karen Katz
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Schomburg : the man who built a library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Little leaders : bold women in black history by Vashti Harrison
Let the children march by Monica Clark-Robinson
Unstoppable : how Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team defeated Army by Art Coulson
We rise, we resist, we raise our voices by Wade Hudson
Not my idea : a book about whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged! by Jody Warner
No small potatoes : Junius G. Groves and his kingdom in Kansas by Tonya Bolden
Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history by Walter Dean Myers
Hana's suitcase : the quest to solve a Holocaust mystery by Karen Levine
Whoosh! : Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions by Chris Barton
Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas by Gwendolyn Hooks
The legendary Miss Lena Horne by Carole Boston Weatherford
Malcolm Little : the boy who grew up to become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America by Carole Boston Weatherford
I am Jackie Robinson by Brad Meltzer
The undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Henry's freedom box by Ellen Levine
Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
Child of the civil rights movement by Paula Young Shelton
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey
The Grand Mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust by Karen Gray Ruelle
Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Sojourner Truth's step-stomp stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Let it shine : three favorite spirituals by Ashley Bryan
Seeds of change : planting a path to peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson
I am not a number by Jenny Kay Dupuis
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