We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
10 best books like We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March (Cynthia Levinson): Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Author | Phillip Hoose |
ISBN | 0374304688 |
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
ISBN | 0670011894 |
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Author | Melba Pattillo Beals |
ISBN | 0671866397 |
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran the gauntlet between a rampaging mob and the heavily armed Arkansas...
Author | Phillip Hoose |
ISBN | 0374313229 |
“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white...
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Author | Lynda Blackmon Lowery |
ISBN | 0803741235 |
A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes
As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside...
Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
ISBN | 0763665312 |
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...
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
Author | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
ISBN | 0761361693 |
Coretta Scott King award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson's great uncle was Lewis Micheaux, owner of the famous National Memorial African Bookstore. Located in the heart of Harlem, New York, from 1939 to 1975, Micheaux's bookstore became the epicenter of black literary life and a rallying...
Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
"Boys, let us get up a club."With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion in 1866. They pulled white sheets over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. Soon, the six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan and began...
Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
ISBN | 0763636118 |
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But...
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Author | Neal Bascomb |
ISBN | 0545430992 |
The story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale!
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen...
Author | Sy Montgomery |
ISBN | 0547443153 |
When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism.
While Temple’s doctor recommended a hospital, her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead.
Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor...
Author | Steve Sheinkin |
ISBN | 0804167443 |
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin.
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty...
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
ISBN | 0763651176 |
They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.
World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought...
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
Author | Warren St. John |
ISBN | 0385522037 |
The extraordinary story of a refugee football team and the transformation of a small American town.
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement centre in the 1990s, becoming home to scores of families in flight from the world's war zones—from...