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Here are titles for the classroom and teacher background reading on the Selma freedom struggle. Learn more about the history of Selma in "The Selma Voting Rights Struggle: 15 Key Points from Bottom-Up History and Why It Matters Today" by Emilye Crosby. Additional teaching resources are available at CivilRightsTeaching.org and the ZinnEducationProject.org.
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
By Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Rachel West Nelson Milhouse, Frank Sikora
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
By Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Teaching Story from a D.C. Educator: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
By Faith S. Holsaert (Editor), Martha Prescod Norman Noonan (Editor), Judy Richardson (Editor)
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
By Leslie G. Kelen (Editor), Julian Bond (Contribution by), Clayborne Carson (Contribution by)
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
By Henry Hampton, Steve Fayer
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
By Andrew Young Foreword by Quincy Jones
Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
By Steven F. Lawson, Charles M. Payne, James T. Patterson (Introduction by)
Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching: A Resource Guide for Classrooms and Communities
By Deborah Menkart (Editor)