CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 6, 2009
"She offers readers a perspective that is rarely explored, showing that racial prejudices were not confined to the South and that the Civil Rights Movement was a truly national struggle. (historical note) (Historical fiction. 10-14)"
This compelling debut novel set in 1968 Chicago vividly depicts how one African-American family is torn between two opposiing approaches to the Civil Rights Movement.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 29, 1997
Tillage, a black custodian in a Baltimore private school, reminisces about his childhood as a sharecropper's son in the South, and his youth as a civil-rights protester.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Feb. 2, 2009
"Her commitment to combating injustice, however, was unaffected, and she remains an inspiring figure whom contemporary readers will be pleased to discover. (notes, bibliography, index) (Biography. 12 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 13, 2008
"Gentle, powerful and healing. (Picture book. 7-10)"
Two boys, one an African-American, one a Polish Jew, learn from their fathers' pride and self-respect.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Feb. 20, 2010
"A standout book for its thorough research and comprehensive look at the incident that led to the 1964 passage of civil-rights legislation. (further reading, author's note, source notes, picture credits) (Nonfiction. 10 & up)"
Brimner focuses on the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and successfully illuminates in chronological order the events, social tensions and political reverberations of that terror-filled time.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 4, 1993
"Chronology (1954-68); bibliography of additional sources; b&w photos and index not seen. (Nonfiction. 10+)"
Using the words of participants in the landmark struggles in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, Levine powerfully re-creates their experiences.
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AS GOOD AS ANYBODY: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL’S AMAZING MARCH TOWARD FREEDOM
