Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
10 best books like Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Thomas J. Sugrue): The Little House, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, What Do People Do All Day?, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas, Something From Nothing, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, Red Is Best, Angelina Ballerina, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
| Author | Virginia Lee Burton |
| ISBN | 0395181569 |
Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
| Author | Richard Rothstein |
| ISBN | 1631492853 |
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the...
What Do People Do All Day?
| Author | Richard Scarry |
| ISBN | 0394818237 |
While Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? definitely is engagingly entertaining, full of details upon details and thus both textually and illustratively informative (and albeit I do also have fond memories using a school library copy in grade four to practice my English vocabulary), personally...
A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas
A Porcupine in a Pine Tree is basically and simply a Canadian version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, humorous, delightfully Canuck, with caribous, moose, beavers and the like taking the place of the more familiar denizens of partridges, calling birds, leaping lords etc. (nothing spectacular about...
| Author | Phoebe Gilman |
| ISBN | 0590472801 |
This is one of my favorite picture books. All children should hear this story, and they should hear it more than once.
Quite a few topics are addressed in relatively few pages.
• the Jewish culture
• "waste not want not"
• the job of a tailor
• family with close association...
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
| Author | Peniel E. Joseph |
| ISBN | 0805075399 |
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, and death of the Black Power movement
With the rallying cry of "Black Power!" in 1966, a group of black activists, including Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton, turned their backs on Martin...
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
| Author | Elizabeth Gillespie McRae |
Why does white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women.
Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance examines the grassroots workers who upheld the system of racial...
Young Kelly's mom doesn't understand about red. Sure, the brown mittens are warmer, but the red mitts make better snowballs. And the red boots aren't just for rain; they take bigger steps in any weather. And, yes, a red cup does make a difference... juice just doesn't taste as good in a green one. No doubt...
| Author | Katharine Holabird |
| ISBN | 0670060267 |
Originally published in 1983, and then presented in this 25th Anniversary Edition in 2008, this first story about that dancing mouse, Angelina Ballerina, is immensely charming. Always dancing, always moving, Angelina is the despair of her mother, as she causes destruction wherever she goes with...
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
| Author | Heather Ann Thompson |
| ISBN | 0375423222 |
The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.
On...
| Author | Robert Munsch |
| ISBN | 0920303129 |
A childhood favourite of mine... it's time to pass it along to Neo. Mortimer is quite the child. When asked to remain quiet at bedtime, young Mortimer begins to sing at the top of his lungs. Visits from his father, massive sibling group, and the police seem not to stop this singing sensation from pushing...
| Author | Annelise Orleck |
| ISBN | 0807050318 |
In "Storming Caesars Palace," historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring "We can do it and do it better," these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In...
The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar: A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days
| Author | Michael Judge |
| ISBN | 1559707461 |
This is a gentle survey of the origins of the modern Calendar. It explores the history and significance of the major feasts that punctuate the calendar each month. The result is a book filled with interesting facts illuminating many facets of Western culture. It can provide the reader an interesting...
The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
| Author | Patrick D. Jones |
| ISBN | 0674031350 |
Between 1958 and 1970, a distinctive movement for racial justice emerged from unique circumstances in Milwaukee. A series of local leaders inspired growing numbers of people to participate in campaigns against employment and housing discrimination, segregated public schools, the membership...
