High School

Bausum, Ann. With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote, National Geographic Children's Books, 2004. Details the American Suffrage movement.

Burns, Ken and Geoffrey C. Ward. Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Knopf, 2001. A short historical biography of the two influential American women.

Conway, Kellyanne, Celinda Lake and Catherine Whitney. What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live, 2005.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man, Vintage, 1995. Story of a man growing up in the South, where he is expelled from school, moves north, and becomes a leader and activist.

Griswold del Castillo, Richard. César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. Biography that illustrates the development of Chávez as a leader in the movement to unionize farm workers.

Grooms, Anthony. Bombingham: A Novel. New York: The Free Press, 2001. A young soldier in Vietnam writes a letter home recalling his years growing up in Birmingham during the civil rights movement.

Haskins, Jim. Separate But Not Equal: The Dream and the Struggle, Scholastic Press, 1998. Explains the history of segregation in education.

Lewis, John and Michael D'Orso. Walking with the Wind, Harvest Books, 1999. Civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis's autobiography.

McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home—Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, Simon & Schuster 2001. Personal narrative of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.

Moore, Yvette. Freedom Songs, Puffin, 1991. Set in the early 1960s, a young black girl from Brooklyn visits her grandmother in North Carolina where she experiences Jim Crowism firsthand.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Plume, 1998. Tale of a runaway slave and the horrors she faces in the antebellum South, for upper high school level. Lesson plan to supplement this book available from Jim Crow History site: http://jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/
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Winters, Paul. ed. The Civil Rights Movement, Greenhaven Press, 2000. Includes 23 essays written during the movement to illustrate the mindset and the climate of the times.

Wormser, Richard. The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow: The African-American Struggle Against Discrimination, 1865-1954, Franklin Watts, 1999. Account of discrimination from the end of the Civil War to Brown v. Board.

Sources:
American Library Association; Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Site; California Department of Education Recommended Reading List; Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison; De Grummond's Children's Literature Collection: Civil Rights Movement Bibliography; The Horn Book Guide; NOW.org; PBS's History of Jim Crow Site: List of Fictional Books Relating to Jim Crow; Resource Center of the Americas; Scholastic Books Online; and Virginia Center for Children's Books: African American Civil Rights Movement