Late Elementary

Blakeslee, Ann R. Summer Battles, Marshall Cavendish, 2000. Story of a young girl's battle against prejudice in 1926 Alabama.

Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes, Scholastic, 1999. Story told from the perspective of 6-year-old Ruby, who was the first black child to attend an integrated public school in 1960.

Bullard, Sara. Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle, Oxford University Press Children's Books, 1994. Chronology of the civil rights movement.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, Delacorte Press, 1995. Fictional account of the summer of 1963, in Birmingham, from the perspective of a 9-year-old boy.

Fritz, Jean. You Want the Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, Putnam Juvenile, 1999. Biography of American feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Haskins, James. Bayard Rustin—Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement, Hyperion Books for Children, 1997. A biography of Rustin's contribution to the March on Washington.

Haskins, James. The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot: A Photo History of the Civil Rights Movement, Scholastic Press, 1991. Recounts in photos the history of the civil rights movement.

Hill, Christine M. John Lewis: From Freedom Rider to Congressman (African-American Biographies), Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2002. Biography of the civil rights leader.

Karr, Kathleen and Malene Laugesen. Mama Went to Jail for the Vote, 2005. A fictional account of the 20th-century American Suffragist movement.

Keenan, Sheila. Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States, Turtleback Books, 2002. Contains over 200 brief entries about influential women that are arranged alphabetically into six chronological chapters.

Krull, Kathleen. A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull, Walker Books for Young Readers, 2006. Biography of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States.

Littlesugar, Amy. Freedom School, Yes!, Philomel Books, 2001. Fictional account of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom School Summer Project, in which 600 white volunteers came to teach children in the deep South.

Parks, Rosa and Jim Haskins (Contributor). Rosa Parks: My Story, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1992. Rosa Parks' autobiography.

Reed, Gregory J. Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today's Youth by Rosa Parks, Lee & Low Books, 1996. Collection of letters to Rosa Parks from schoolage children, with her replies.

Tackach, James. Brown v. Board of Education, Lucent Books, 1998. Provides an explanation of Brown v. Board of Education.

Taylor, Mildred D. Mississippi Bridge, Dial Books, 1990. Set in 1930s Mississippi, this novel looks at racism through the eyes of a 10-year-old white boy.

Tillage, Leon Walter, illustrated by Susan L. Roth. Leon's Story, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997. Story about growing up in segregated America at the beginning of the 20th century.

Sources:
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Site; California Department of Education Recommended Reading List; 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; Scholastic Books Online; and Virginia Center for Children's Books: African American Civil Rights Movement