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Historical Fiction Civil Rights |
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Let the Children March by Monica Clark-RobinsonDocuments the inspirational peaceful protests in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, combining poetic text and poignant illustrations that celebrate the powerful words of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the resolve of thousands of African-American children to march for their civil rights.
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New Shoes by Susan Meyer"In this historical fiction picture book, Ella Mae and her cousin Charlotte, both African American, start their own shoe store when they learn that they cannot try on shoes at the shoe store."
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by Margaret H. Mason
An African American man tells his grandson about a time when, despite all the wonderful things his hands could do, they could not touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Based on stories of bakery union workers; includes historical note. |
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by Richard Michelson
Transferred to an all-white school when his district is desegregated in the 1970s, African-American first grader Brewster struggles with being treated differently before meeting a kind librarian.
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Finding Lincoln by Ann MalaspinaA tale of courage set in Alabama in 1951, a young African-American boy challenges the rules of the day by entering a "whites-only" library to obtain the books he needs to write an essay for school about young Abraham Lincoln and encounters a courageous librarian who is more than happy to help him achieve his goal.
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A Taste of Colored Water by Matt FaulknerCurious about the colored water they have heard about coming from a fountain in town, Lulu and Jelly set out to get a taste of it for themselves, but things don't go as planned when the two kids learn what the description really means upon their arrival in this moving early reader set in the southern United States in the early 1960s.
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Sister Anne's Hands by Marybeth LorbieckiSeven-year-old Anna has her first encounter with racism in the 1960s when an African American nun comes to teach at her parochial school.
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Out of Left Field by Ellen KlagesIn 1957, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball and uses what she learns about civil rights and the history of female baseball players to challenge the league ban on girls.
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Betty Before X by Ilyasah ShabazzA powerful middle-grade novel about the childhood activism of Malcolm X's wife, written by their daughter, describes how young Betty finds confidence and purpose by volunteering for the Housewives League in 1945 Detroit, learning skills and developing awareness that inspires her future as a Civil Rights icon.
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Night on Fire by Ronald Kidd"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views."
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Stella By Starlight by Sharon M. DraperGrowing up in the segregated South where they accept the disparities in how they are treated, Stella and her little brother witness a terrible event that compels them to fight back and trigger fundamental changes.
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Revolution by Deborah WilesStruggling to adapt within her newly blended family in 1964 Mississippi, young Sunny witnesses increasingly scary community agitation when activists from the North arrive in town to help register African-Americans to vote.
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-GarciaIn the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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