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The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights

10 best books like The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights (Carole Boston Weatherford): The Undefeated, What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, The Widow of Pale Harbor, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Through My Eyes, Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer, Benno and the Night of Broken Glass, Child of the Civil Rights Movement

The Undefeated
AuthorKwame Alexander
ISBN1328780961
The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree.
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma...
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
AuthorChris Barton
ISBN1481465619
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan had a big, bold, confident voice—and she knew how to use it! Learn all about her career in this picture book biography of the lawyer, educator, politician, and civil rights leader.

Even as a child growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Barbara Jordan...
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
AuthorMargot Lee Shetterly
ISBN0062742469
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.

They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
The Widow of Pale Harbor
AuthorHester Fox
ISBN1488036624
A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself?

Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
AuthorKadir Nelson
ISBN0061730742
Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soul is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor, and the recipient of five starred reviews.

The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. This is...
We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
AuthorKadir Nelson
ISBN0786808322
Rube Foster was the founder of the Negro National League. Said he of his men, "We are the ship: all else the sea." As long as there has been baseball in America there have been African-American ballplayers. Men like Sol White and Bud Fowler. Before Rube Foster, however, there was no organized professional...
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...
Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer
AuthorFiona Robinson
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron’s “mad” love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father...
Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
AuthorMeg Wiviott
ISBN0822599295
Benno is a cat who doesn't belong to one person. He belongs to a town; to Hans, the Adler family in 3B, the Schmidts in 3A, Moshe the butcher, Frau Gerber, Mitzi Stein, and Professor Goldfarb. He spends his days visiting each person, following the daughters in the Adler & Schmidt family to school, playing...
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...
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change
AuthorMichelle Cook
ISBN1599904187
Rosa sat so
Martin could march.
Martin marched so
Barack could run.
Barack ran so
Our children can soar.

This is the seed of a unique and inspirational picture book text, that is part historical, part poetry, and entirely inspirational. It symbolically takes the reader...
Hope's Gift
AuthorKelly Starling Lyons
ISBN0399160019
A poignant story celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation

It’s 1862 and the Civil War has turned out to be a long, deadly conflict. Hope’s father can’t stand the waiting a minute longer and decides to join the Union army to fight for freedom. He slips away one...
Cicada
AuthorShaun Tan
ISBN1338298399
From the visionary Shaun Tan, an inspirational story for older picture book readers and beyond
Cicada tells the story of a hardworking little cicada who is completely unappreciated for what he does. But in the end, just when you think he's given up, he makes a transformation into something ineffably...
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