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Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box

10 best books like Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box (Michael S. Bandy): All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom, White Water, Let the Children March, These Hands, A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream, Harlem Hellfighters, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Nettie's Trip South, Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story

All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
AuthorAngela Johnson
Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.

Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since...
White Water
AuthorMichael S. Bandy
ISBN0763636789
For a young boy growing up in the segregated south, a town drinking fountain becomes the source of an epiphany.

It's a scorching hot day, and going into town with Grandma is one of Michael's favorite things. When the bus pulls up, they climb in and pay their fare, get out, walk to the back door, and...
Let the Children March
AuthorMonica Clark-Robinson
ISBN0544704525
I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. 
I couldn't go to their schools.  
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.  
There were so many things I couldn't do. 

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...
These Hands
AuthorMargaret H. Mason
ISBN0547215665
Joseph’s grandpa could do almost anything with his hands. He could play the piano, throw a curveball, and tie a triple bowline knot in three seconds flat. But in the 1950s and 60s, he could not bake bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Factory bosses said white people would not want to eat bread touched...
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream
AuthorKristy Dempsey
ISBN0399252843
A story of little ballerinas with big dreams.

Little ballerinas have big dreams. Dreams of pirouettes and grande jetes, dreams of attending the best ballet schools and of dancing starring roles on stage. But in Harlem in the 1950s, dreams don’t always come true—they take a lot of work and...
Harlem Hellfighters
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN1568462468
"Lewis's poetics are perfectly complemented by Kelley's evocative pastel illustrations, which both inspire and unsettle." –New York Times

They went by many names, but the world came to know them best as the Harlem Hellfighters. Two thousand strong, these black Americans from New York...
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0763665312
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recollects the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within...
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN0385390289
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul...
Nettie's Trip South
AuthorAnn Turner
ISBN0689801173
In a letter to her friend, Nettie remembers her trip to the pre-Civil War South. She remembers the sweet cedar smell in the air and the sun pressing on her head. But she also remembers Tabitha, the slave at the hotel who has only that one name, and she remembers the heaps of rags the slaves use for beds. Most...
Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story
AuthorCalvin Alexander Ramsey
ISBN0763640581
A true story inspires the moving tale of a mule that played a key role in the civil rights movement-- and a young boy who sees history anew.

Sitting on a bench waiting for his mother, Alex spies a mule chomping on greens in someone's garden, and he can't help but ask about it.""Ol Belle?" says Miz...
Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad
AuthorMonica Edinger
ISBN0763650382
Inspired by a true account, here is the compelling story of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship Amistad —and eventually makes her way home to Africa.

When a drought hits her homeland in Sierra Leone, nine-year-old Magulu is sold as a pawn by her father in exchange for rice. But before...
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama
AuthorHester Bass
ISBN0763669199
Explore a little-known story of the Civil Rights movement, in which black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation.

Mention the Civil Rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening...
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
AuthorGwendolyn Hooks
ISBN1620141566
Vivien Thomas's greatest dream was to attend college to study medicine. But after the stock market crashed in 1929, Vivien lost all his savings. Then he heard about a job opening at the Vanderbilt University medical school under the supervision of Dr. Alfred Blalock. Vivien knew that the all-white...
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
AuthorSusan E. Goodman
ISBN0802737390
In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only.

Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made...
Steamboat School
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN1423121961
Missouri, 1847

When James first started school, his sister practically had to drag him there. The classroom was dark and dreary, and James knew everything outside was more exciting than anything he'd find inside.

But his teacher taught him otherwise.

"We make our own light...
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
AuthorSelina Alko
ISBN0545478537
For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.

This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard...
Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Bravery
AuthorJeanette Winter
ISBN1481422952
Meet two heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the rights to freedom and education in these inspirational nonfiction tales from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeannette Winter. Two stories of bravery in one beautiful book!

Meet two brave young heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the right to...
Frederick's Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass (A Big Words Book)
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
ISBN1423114388
Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He was taken from his mother as a baby, and separated from his grandparents when he was six. He suffered hunger and abuse, but miraculously, he learned how to read. Frederick read newspapers left in the street, and secretly collected spellings from neighborhood...
Red Kite, Blue Kite
AuthorJi-li Jiang
ISBN1423127536

When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, fly kites from their roof and look down at the crowded city streets below, they feel free, like the kites. Baba loves telling Tai Shan stories while the kites--one red, and one blue--rise, dip, and soar together. Then, a bad time comes. People wearing red armbands...
As Fast as Words Could Fly
AuthorPamela M. Tuck
ISBN1600603483
Books like this are essential to help children get a better picture of what struggles African American's went through during the 1950-60's in their fight to end segregation. This book does just that; a must have for every school library and classroom. Teachers and parents should share this book with...
New Shoes
AuthorSusan Lynn Meyer
ISBN0823425282
Set in the South during the time of segregation, this lushly illustrated picture book brings the civil rights era to life for contemporary readers as two young girls find an inventive way to foil Jim Crow laws.

When her brother's hand-me-down shoes don't fit, it is time for Ella Mae to get new...
This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399239863
The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her family’s history. But for three generations, that rope is passed down, used for everything from jump...
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