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The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom

10 best books like The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom (Bettye Stroud): January's Sparrow, A Taste of Colored Water, White Water, Crossing Bok Chitto, If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks, Titanicat, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, Under the Quilt of Night, Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box

January's Sparrow
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399250778
Patricia Polacco's most powerful book since Pink and Say. In the middle of the night, The Crosswhites--including young Sadie--must flee the Kentucky plantation they work on. Dear January has been beaten and killed by the plantation master, and they fear who may be next. But Sadie must leave behind...
A Taste of Colored Water
AuthorMatt Faulkner
ISBN1416916296
You could blame Abbey Finch. If she hadn't come back from town with tales of a fountain bubbling with "colored" water, LuLu and Jelly would not have needed to go see for themselves. But it's not Abbey's fault. It's the early 1960s and colored water isn't the fruit-flavored Technicolor wonder that LuLu...
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...
Crossing Bok Chitto
AuthorTim Tingle
ISBN0938317776
There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. On one side of the river lived the Choctaws. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. If a slave escaped...
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
AuthorFaith Ringgold
ISBN0689856768

If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the...
Titanicat
AuthorMarty Crisp
ISBN1585363553
Young Jim Mulholland can't believe his good luck: He has signed on as a cabin boy to the world's finest ocean liner, the Titanic, and can't wait for the history-making voyage across the sea to America. As part of his duties Jim is in charge of the ship's cat, a beautiful tortoiseshell that also appears happy...
John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
AuthorJohn Hendrix
ISBN0810937980
Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures. A great deal of academic study has been published recently about John Brown. This is the first book for young readers to include these...
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...
Under the Quilt of Night
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0689877005
Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that...
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
AuthorMichael S. Bandy
ISBN0763665932
Based on the true story of one family’s struggle for voting rights in the Civil Rights–era South, this moving tale shines an emotional spotlight on a dark facet of U.S. history.

Life on the farm with Granddaddy is full of hard work, but despite all the chores, Granddaddy always makes time...
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...
The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery
AuthorDennis Brindell Fradin
ISBN0802721664
When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started...
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0805082646
Our 16th president is known for many things: He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very...
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...
The Listeners
AuthorGloria Whelan
ISBN1585364193
Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn’t live in the great house. She is a slave. It’s dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. And it’s sunset when she comes home. But her day isn’t done, not yet. Ella May still has important work to do. She’s got to listen.Each...
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...
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II
AuthorLouise Borden
ISBN0689808275
Outstanding juvenile historical fiction about the WWII Dunkirk evacuation targeted to 8 - 12 year olds, but a worthy read for grown-ups who like kid fiction and anyone who gets a tear in their eye thinking of all those little boats voluntarily going into the way of grievous harm to rescue allied troops.

The...
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
AuthorAlan Schroeder
They called her "Minty."

When she grew up, she became Harriet Tubman, the courageous and heroic woman who helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad. But she was just a little girl for a while--and this is her story. Minty, short for Araminta, was a feisty and...
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...
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