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Schools

Elementary and Middle School

The Doll Test

By Carole Boston Weatherford and David Elmo Cooper (Illustrator)

Fire from the Rock

By Sharon Draper

The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

By Susan E. Goodman, E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School: Based on a True Story

By Traci Huahn and Michelle Jing Chan (Illustrator)

Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation*

By Duncan Tonatiuh

 

Step by Step! How the Lincoln School Marchers Blazed a Trail to Justice

By Debbie Rigaud, Carlotta Penn
Read: “Marching Mothers” Sue to Desegregate Schools

Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me

By John A. Stokes, Lois Wolfe (With), Herman Viola

Sylvia & Aki*

By Winifred Conkling

This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality*

By Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy

When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl's Story of Virginia's Lost Generation and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision

By Pizzoli Tamara, Yolanda Gladden, and Keisha Morris (Illustrator)

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YA and Adult

Brown v. Board of Education Booklet

The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South

By Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand

Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education

By Gary Orfield, Susan E. Eaton (Joint Author), Elaine R. Jones (Foreword by)

The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

By Teri Kanefield

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

By Rachel Devlin

Hey, White Girl

By Judith Bice

The Kindness of Color

By Janice Munemitsu, foreword by Sylva Mendez

The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools

By Vanessa Siddle Walker

Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights

By Philippa Strum

 

Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the Civil Rights Era

By Ruben Donato

The Price They Paid: Desegregation in an African American Community

By Vivian Gunn Morris, Curtis L. Morris

Remember: The Journey to School Integration

By Toni Morrison

 

Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

By Richard Kluger

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Sit-Ins

 

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

By Carole Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue  (Illustrator)

Moving Forward: From Space-Age Rides to Civil Rights Sit-Ins with Airman Alton Yates

By Chris Barton and Steffi Walthall  (Illustrator)

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

By Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (illustrator)

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

By Phillip Hoose

Lizzie Demands a Seat! Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights

By Beth Anderson and E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)

Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott*

By Dee Romito

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition *

By Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

By Mia Bay

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