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10 best books like Remember: The Journey to School Integration (Toni Morrison): Through My Eyes, Goin' Someplace Special, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, Child of the Civil Rights Movement, The Blacker the Berry, Bird, The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement, The Bat Boy & His Violin, Chess Rumble

Through My Eyes
AuthorRuby Bridges
ISBN0590189239
I had to read this book for school and it is about Ruby Bridges as a child written by Ruby Bridges.
Now surprisingly I somewhat enjoyed this book! I thought that Ruby was such a cool little girl and that she is pretty awesome! Some things I didn't like is the swearing(bad words) and I now this is such an...
Goin' Someplace Special
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0689818858
'Tricia Ann is going to her favorite place in the world today. It's the first time she's been allowed to go there all by herself. In a lovely dress that looks like spring, she leaves the house. Her grandmother cautions her to "hold yo' head up and act like you b'long to somebody."



But holding...
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0060821183
This story begins with shoes.
This story is all for true.
This story walks. And walks. And walks.
To the blues.

Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming...
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
AuthorShane W. Evans
ISBN1596435380
A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for Freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.

"A stellar introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated...
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorPaula Young Shelton
ISBN0375843140
In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child's unique perspective to an important chapter in America's history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did...
The Blacker the Berry
AuthorJoyce Carol Thomas
ISBN0060253754
Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous poetry collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these many shades of...
Bird
AuthorZetta Elliott
Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that don't turn out right. In real life, problems aren't so easily fixed.

As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brother's drug addiction, he escapes into his...
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorTeri Kanefield
ISBN1419707965
 Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school,...
The Bat Boy & His Violin
AuthorGavin Curtis
ISBN0689841159
Reginald loves to create beautiful music on his violin. But Papa, manager of the Dukes, the worst team in the Negro National League, needs a bat boy, not a "fiddler," and traveling with the Dukes doesn't leave Reginald much time for practicing.

Soon the Dukes' dugout is filled with Beethoven,...
Chess Rumble
AuthorG. Neri
ISBN1584302798
Three moves is all it takes to change the outcome of the game.

In Marcus's world, battles are fought everyday on the street, at home, and in school. Angered by his sister's death and his father's absence, and pushed to the brink by a bullying classmate, Marcus fights back with his fists.

One...
Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
AuthorShelley Tougas
ISBN0756545129
Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school a young girl being taunted, harassed and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the worlds attention and kept its disapproving...
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...
March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
AuthorChristine King Farris
ISBN0545035376
Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister, Christine, recounts the day of the March and his 'I Have A Dream Speech' in Washington D.C. I listened to this on audiobook and I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes, which was nice, and I'm glad I did because there were pieces from that day inserted into the audiobook...
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0803728603
When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil Rights Movement. Connie is used to the signs and customs...
Almost to Freedom
AuthorVaunda Micheaux Nelson
Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's...
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
AuthorEllen Levine
ISBN0698118707
In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus,...
A Sweet Smell of Roses
AuthorAngela Johnson
ISBN0689832524
There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down the street, and across town to where men and women are gathered, ready to march for freedom and justice.
Inspired by the countless young people who took a stand against the forces of injustice, two Coretta Scott...
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
AuthorRichard Michelson
ISBN0375833358
MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for justice and equality.

Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He aimed to put a stop to it. He became a minister like his daddy,...
Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN0439352436
Soar along with Bessie Coleman in this inspirational tale of a woman whose determination reached new heights.

Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman was always being told what she could & couldn't do. In an era when Jim Crow laws and segregation were a way of life, it was not easy to survive. Bessie...
The Buried Bones Mystery
AuthorSharon M. Draper
ISBN0689879105
DEM BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN With their neighborhood basketball court destroyed by vandalism, Ziggy, Rashawn, Jerome, and Rico don't know how they're going to spend summer vacation. Then Ziggy has a brilliant idea (Ziggy is always getting brilliant ideas) they can start a club, with secret meetings...
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