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A bibliography of juvenile books
held within the USM Libraries' Juvenile and de Grummond Collections
covering the topic of the Civil Rights Movement prepared by
former de Grummond Specialist, Mary Hamby Hamilton, MLIS.
African Americans Who Were
First by Joan Potter and Constance Claytor; Cobblehill
Books, 1997.
ISBN: 0-525-65246-9
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.96 .P684 1997
Summary: Provides brief biographical sketches of African
Americans who were the first of their race to accomplish a
goal in a variety of fields from medicine and politics to
sports and entertainment.
And
Not Afraid to Dare: The Stories of Ten African-American Women
by Tonya Bolden; Scholastic, 1998.
ISBN: 0-590-48080-4
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.96 .B567 1998
Summary: Biographical portraits of ten African-American
women including Leontyne Price, Toni Morrison, and Jackie
Joyner-Kerse.
Bayard
Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by
James Haskins; Hyperion Books for Children, 1997. ISBN: 0-7868-2140-X
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.R93 H37 1997
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.97.R93 H37 1997
Summary: A biography of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer
behind the scenes of the American civil rights movement whose
ideas strongly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black
Civil Rights Champions by Kimberly Hayes Taylor; Oliver
Press, 1995. ISBN: 1-881508-22-6
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .T39 1995
Black
Hoops: The History of African Americans in Basketball by
Fredrick McKissack; Scholastic, 1999.
ISBN: 0-590-48712-4
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection GV883 .M316 1999
Summary: Surveys the history of African Americans in
basketball from the beginning of the sport to the present,
discussing individual teams and players and the integration
of the National Basketball Association.
Black
Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement by Zita Allen;
Franklin Watts, 1996.
ISBN: 0-531-11271-3
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .A4415 1996
Brown
v. Board of Education by James Tackach; Lucent Books,
1998. ISBN: 1-56006-273-8
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection KF228.B76 T33 1998
Summary: Provides a historical overview of the case
that desegregated public education in the United States.
The
Bus Ride by William Miller, illustrated by John Ward,
introduction by Rosa Parks; Lee & Low, 1998.
ISBN: 1-8800000-60-1
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.M63915 Bu 1998
Summary: A black child protests an unjust law in this
story loosely based on Rosa Parks' historic decision not to
give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery,
Alabama in 1955.
Challenge
and Change: The Story of Civil Rights Activist C.T. Vivian
by Lydia Walker; Dreamkeeper Press, 1993.
ISBN: 1-877-852-14-7 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.V58 W35 1993
Civil
Rights Leaders by Sina Dubovoy; Facts on File, 1997. ISBN:
0-8160-3363-3
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .D83 1997
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.61 .D83 1997
Civil
Rights Marches by Linda and Charles George; Children's
Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-516-21183-8
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .G29 1999
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.61 .G29 1999
Summary: Describes the peaceful marches in the United
States on behalf of civil rights for blacks from the 1950s
to the 1990s, including the March on Washington and other
important marches.
The
Civil Rights Movement by John M. Dunn; Lucent Books, 1998.
ISBN: 1-56006-310-6
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .D89 1998
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.61 .D89 1998
Summary: A historical overview of the movement for
freedom and equality for blacks in the United States.
The
Civil Rights Movement by Charles Patterson; Facts on File,
1995. ISBN: 0-8160-2968-7
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .P32 1995
The
Civil Rights Movement edited by Paul Winters; Greenhaven
Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-7377-0217-6
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .C612 2000
The
Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History by Sanford
Wexler; Facts on File, 1999. ISBN: 0-8160-2748-X
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .W548 1999b
The
Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities
by Mary C. Turck; Chicago Review Press, 2000.
ISBN: 1-55652-370-X Cook Library / Juvenile Collection
E185.61 .T925 2000
The
Civil Rights Movement in America, 2nd edition, by Patricia
and Fredrick McKissack; Childrens Press, 1991.
ISBN: 0-516-00579-0
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .M479 1991
Summary: From the beginning of Reconstruction to the
present, traces the struggle of blacks to gain their civil
rights in America, with a brief comparison of their problems
to these and other minorities.
Civil
Rights Pioneer: A Story about Mary Church Terrell; Carolrhoda
Books, 1999. ISBN: 1-57505-355-1
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.T47 S93 1999
Summary: A biography of a determined woman, who was
born in Tennessee, educated in Ohio, and lived in Washington,
D.C., where she worked to gain equal rights for herself and
other African Americans.
Coretta
Scott King by Lisa Renee Rhodes; Chelsea House Publishers,
1998. ISBN: 0-7910-4690-7
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K47 R56 1998
Summary: Biography of Martin Luther King's widow, from
her childhood in rural Alabama to her crusade to keep her
husband's message of peace and equality alive after his murder
in 1968
Coretta
Scott King: Striving for Civil Rights by Anne Schraff;
Enslow Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 0-89490-811-1
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K47 S37 1997
Summary: Explores the life and career of Coretta Scott
King, from her childhood in Alabama, through her work with
the civil rights movement, to her continuing efforts on behalf
of the underprivileged.
The
Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot: A Photo History of
the Civil Rights Movement by Jim Haskins; Scholastic,
1992 ISBN: 0-590-43661-9 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .H32 1992
Dear
Dr. King: Letters from Today's Children to Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. edited by Jan Colbert and Ann McMillan Harms;
Hyperion Books for Children, 1998. ISBN: 0-7868-0417-3 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.K465 A4 1998
Dear
Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today's Youth by Rosa Parks;
Lee & Low, 1996. ISBN: 1-8800000-45-8
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.P3 A4 1996
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.97.P2 A4 1996
Summary: Presents correspondence between Rosa Parks
and various children in which the "Mother of the Modern-Day
Civil Rights Movement" answers questions and encourages young
people to reach their highest potential.
Dinner
at Aunt Connie's House by Faith Ringgold; Hyperion Paperbacks
for Children, 1996. ISBN: 0-7868-1150-1 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.R4726 Di 1996
Summary: Dinner at Aunt Connie's is even more special
than usual when Melody meets not only her new adopted cousin
but twelve inspiring African-American women, who step out
of their portraits and join the family for dinner.
Free
at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those
Who Died in the Struggle by Sara Bullard; Oxford University
Press, 1993. ISBN: 0-19-508381-4
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .B926 1993
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.61 .B926 1993
Summary: An illustrated history of the civil rights
movement, including a timeline and profiles of forty people
who gave their lives in the movement.
Freedom
Rides: Journey for Justice by James Haskins; Hyperion
Books for Children, 1995. ISBN: 0-7868-0048-8
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .H36 1995
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.61 .H36 1995
Freedom
Songs by Yvette Moore; Puffin Books, 1992, c1991. ISBN:
0-14-036017-4 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.M799155 Fr 1992
McCain Library / de Grummond PZ7.M799155 Fr 1992
Summary: In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins
the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert
in Brooklyn to help him.
Great
African American in Civil Rights by Pat Rediger; Crabtree
Publishing, 1996. ISBN: 0-86505-798-2
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E747 .R43 1996
McCain Library / de Grummond E747 .R43 1996
Summary: Profiles notable African Americans in the
field of civil rights including Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm
X, and Marian Wright Edelman.
Happy
Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo, illustrated
by J. Brian Pinkney; Scholastic, 1993. ISBN: 0-439-09942-0
(pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K5 M345 2000
Heeding
the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle
by Norman H. Finkelstein; The Jewish Publication Society,
1997.
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E184.J5 F484 1997
Summary: Discusses the involvement of Jews in the African
American struggle for civil rights in the United States, from
the first settlers to the 1990s.
Historic
Speeches of African Americans selected by Warren J. Halliburton;
Franklin Watts, 1993. ISBN: 0-531-11034-6
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E184.6 .H57 1993
Summary: Presents speeches by various African American
religious and political leaders from the days of slavery to
the present, along with biographical information and historical
background.
I
Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins, illustrated
by Wil Clay; Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997. ISBN: 0-8037-1207-3
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F334.M753 P37 1997
McCain Library / de Grummond F334.M753 P37 1997
Summary: The African American woman whose acts of civil
disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate
buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
I
Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Scholastic, 1997.
ISBN: 0-590-20516-1
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .K53 1997
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.61 .K53 1997
Ida
B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis
Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin; Clarion Books, 2000.
ISBN: 0-395-89898-6
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.W55 F73 2000
If
a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold;
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. ISBN: 0-689-81892-0
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F334.M753 R56 1999
McCain Library / de Grummond F334.M753 R56 1999
Summary: A biography of the African American woman
and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat
on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in
Montgomery , Alabama.
Leon's
Story by Leon Walter Tillage, collage art by Susan L.
Roth; Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997. ISBN: 0-374-34379-9
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F264.F86 T55 1997
McCain Library / de Grummond F264.F86 T55 1997
Summary: The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls
the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans
in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes
that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
Life
and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. by James Haskins;
Beech Tree, 1992, c1977. ISBN: 0-688-11690-6 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K5 H33 1992
Summary: A biography of a man who dedicated his life
to the cause of civil rights, which also reexamines unanswered
questions concerning his assassination.
Malcolm
X: A Fire Burning Brightly by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated
by Leonard Jenkins; HarperCollins, 2000.
ISBN: 0-06-027708-4
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection BP223.Z8 L5765 2000
McCain Library / de Grummond BP223.Z8 L5765 2000
Malcolm
X: His Life and Legacy by Kevin Brown; Millbrook Press,
1995. ISBN: 1-56294-500-9
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection BP223.Z8 L5724 1995
Summary: A biography of the Nation of Islam's spokesman,
Malcolm X, placed within the context of the civil rights movement.
Martin
Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson;
Facts on File, 1989. ISBN: 0-8160-1605-4
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K5 P29 1989
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.97.K5 P29 1989
Summary: A biography of the Baptist minister, focusing
on his leadership role in the civil rights movement.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.: Free at Last by David A. Adler, illustrated
by Robert Casilla; Holiday House,
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K5 A64 1986
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.97.K5 A64 1986
Martin
Luther King, Jr.: Leader for Civil Rights by Michael
A. Schuman; Enslow Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0-89490-687-9
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K5 S39 1996
Summary: Examines the life and career of the Baptist
minister who supported the use of nonviolent resistance to
discrimination and describes his involvement in many important
events in the civil rights movement.
Mississippi
Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor, illustrated by Max Ginsburg;
Bantam Skylark Books, 1990. ISBN: 0-553-15992-5 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.T21723 Mi 1992
McCain Library / de Grummond PZ7.T21723 Mi 1992
Mr.
Civil Rights: The Story of Thurgood Marshall by Nancy
Whitelaw; Morgan Reynolds Incorporated, 1995.
ISBN: 1-883846-10-2
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection KF8745.M34 W47 1995
Summary: A biography of the civil rights advocate who
was the first African American to be appointed to the Supreme
Court.
My
Dream of Martin Luther King by Faith Ringgold; Crown
Publishers, 1995. ISBN: 0-517-59977-5
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K5 R56 1995
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.97.K5 R56 1995
Summary: The author recounts the life of Martin Luther
King in the form of her own dream.
The
National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People
by Alice Faye Duncan, photographs by J. Gerard Smith; Troll
Medallion, 2001. ISBN: 0-8167-3503-4 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.615 .D83 2001
The
New York Public Library Amazing African American History:
A Book of Answers for Kids by Diane Patrick; Wiley, 1998.
ISBN: 0-471-19217-1 (pbk)
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185 .P34 1998
Summary: Presents questions and answers relating to
important periods in African American history including the
Revolution, Civil War, Reconstruction, Migration, and the
Civil Rights Movement.
Night
Golf by William Miller, illustrated by Cedric Lucas;
Lee & Low, 1999. ISBN: 1-8800000-79-2
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.M63915 Ni 1999
McCain Library / de Grummond PZ7.M63915 Ni 1999
Summary: Despite being told that only whites can play
golf, James becomes a caddy and is befriended by an older
African American man who teaches him to play on the course
at night.
Osceola:
Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter collected and edited
by Alan Govenar, illustrated by Shane W. Evans; Hyperion Books
for Children, 2000. ISBN: 0-7868-0407-6
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F392.H39 M35 2000
McCain Library / de Grummond F392.H39 M35 2000
Summary: A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood
in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.
A
Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David A. Adler,
illustrated by Robert Casilla; Holiday House, 1989. ISBN:
0-8234-0770-5
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.97.K5 A63 1989
McCain Library / de Grummond E185.97.K5 A63 1989
Summary: A brief, illustrated biography of the Baptist
minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice
of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win
many battles for equal rights.
A
Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David A. Adler, illustrated
by Robert Casilla; Holiday House, 1993. ISBN: 0-8234-1041-2
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F334.M753 P3823 1993
McCain Library / de Grummond F334.M753 P3823 1993
Summary: A biography of the Alabama black woman whose
refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the
civil rights movement.
Richard
Wright and the Library Card by William Miller, illustrated
by Gregory Christie; Lee & Low Books, 1997.
ISBN: 1-8800000-57-1
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.M63915 Ri 1997
McCain Library / de Grummond PZ&.M63915 Ri 1997
Summary: Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography,
Black Boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American
borrows a white man's library card and devours every book
as a ticket to freedom.
The
Rise & Fall of Jim Crow: The African-American Struggle Against
Discrimination, 1865-1954 by Richard Wormser; Franklin
Watts, 1999. ISBN: 0-531-11443-0
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.61 .W935 1999
Summary: Discusses the laws and practices that supported
discrimination against African Americans from Reconstruction
to the Supreme Court decision that found segregation to be
illegal.
Rosa
Parks by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Gil Ashby;
HarperCollins, 1996, c1973. ISBN: 0-06-027110-8
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F334.M753 P3843 1995
Summary: A biography of a woman whose actions led to
the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the
1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of
the civil rights movement.
The
Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles, illustrated by
George Ford; Scholastic, 1995. ISBN: 0-590-57281-4
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F379.N59 N33 1995
McCain Library / de Grummond F379.N59 N33 1995
Summary: For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must
confront the hostility of segregationists when she becomes
the first African-American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary
School in New Orleans in 1960.
Summer
Battles by Ann R. Blakeslee; Marshall Cavendish, 2000.
ISBN: 0-7614-5064-5
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.B568 Su 2000
Summary: In the summer of 1926, eleven-year-old Kathy
visits her grandfather Grando, the only minister in Peaceable,
Indiana, and finds him the target of the local Ku Klux Klan
because he employs a colored woman.
Through
My Eyes by Ruby Bridges; Scholastic, 1999. ISBN: 0-590-18923-9
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection F379.N59 N435 1999
McCain Library / de Grummond F379.N59 N435 1999
Summary: Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement,
as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New
Orleans in 1960.
Thurgood
Marshall: A Dream of Justice for All by Stuart A. Kallen;
Abdo & Daughters, 1993. ISBN: 1-56239-258-1
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection KF8745.M34 K35 1993
Summary: A biography of the first African-American
Supreme Court justice, who worked at making civil rights possible
for all Americans.
Tommy
Traveler in the World of Black History by Tom Feelings;
Black Butterfly Children's Books, 1991.
ISBN: 0-86316-211-8 Cook Library / Juvenile Collection
E185 .F4
McCain Library / de Grummond E185 .F4
The
Turning Tide: From the Desegregation of the Armed Forces to
the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1948-1956) by Margaret Dornfeld;
Chelsea House Publishers, 1995. ISBN: 0-7910-2256-0
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection E185.615 .D654 1995
Uncle
Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell, illustrated
by James Ransome; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
1993. ISBN: 0-671-76969-3
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.M6937 Un 1993
McCain Library / de Grummond PZ7.M6937 Un 1993
Summary: Despite serious obstacles and setbacks Sarah
Jean's Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, pursues
his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop.
The
Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis;
Delacorte Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-385-32175-9
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PZ7.C94137 Wat 1995
McCain Library / de Grummond PZ7.C94137 Wat 1995
Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines
of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint,
Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma
in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Women
Who Reformed Politics by Isobel V. Morin; Oliver Press,
1994. ISBN: 1-881508-16-1
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection HQ1412 .M67 1994
Summary: Includes biographical sketches of eight women
including the civil rights champion, Fannie Lou Hamer.
Young,
Black and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack; Holiday
House, 1998. ISBN: 0-8234-1300-4
Cook Library / Juvenile Collection PS3515.A515 Z77 1998
McCain Library / de Grummond PS3515.A515 Z77 1998
Summary: A biography of the black playwright who received
great recognition for her work at an early age.
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