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Birmingham 1963

Birmingham 1963

Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Published:
2007
Brave. Black. First: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World

Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World

Cheryl Hudson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2020
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Philip M. Hoose
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2009
Coming of Age in Mississippi

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

Anne Moody
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir, Nonfiction
Published:
1968
Fire from the Rock

Fire from the Rock

Sharon Draper
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction
Published:
2007
Flying South

Flying South

L.M. Elliott
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2003
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement

Ann Bausum
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2005
Young Civil Rights marchers carrying American flag

Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

Bruce Watson, Rebecca Stefoff
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2020
 From Norvelt to Nowhere

From Norvelt to Nowhere

Jack Gantos
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2013
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Andrea Davis Pinkney
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2012
Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story

Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story: The American Odyssey of NASCAR’s First Black Driver

Brian Donovan
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2008
Heart & Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Kadir Nelson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2012
Poster of LBJ on backdrop of March on Washington

Larger Than Life: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Right to Vote

Anne Quirk
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2021
Loretta Little Looks Back

Loretta Little Looks Back

Andrea Davis Pinkney
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Published:
2020
Bridge over river with reflection of jail cell

March: Trilogy Set

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir
Published:
2016
Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition): The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Mighty Justice: The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Young Readers Edition

Katie McCabe, Jabari Asim
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2020
M.L.K.: The Journey of a King

M.L.K.: The Journey of a King

Tonya Bolden
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Published:
2007
Archival photo of Black Civil Rights activists Mae Bertha Carter and her children

Silver Rights

Constance Curry
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2014
Strong Inside
The Awakening of Malcolm X

The Awakening of Malcolm X

Ilyasah Shabazz, Tiffany D. Jackson
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA
Published:
2021
Two young girls holding hands

The Lions of Little Rock

Kristin Levine
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction
The Parker Inheritance

The Parker Inheritance

Varian Johnson
Age Level:
Middle Grade
Genre:
Historical Fiction, Mystery / Crime
Published:
2018

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
Age Level:
YA
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2006
the-rebellious-life-of-mrs-rosa-parks

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA
Genre:
Biography
Published:
2013