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Teaching for Change carefully selects the best multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Learn about our criteria for selecting titles. Feedback on these lists and suggestions for additional titles are welcome. Most of the books on these lists are linked for more information or purchase to Powells, an independent, union labor bookstore. Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement *
By Angela Joy and Janelle Washington (Illustrator)
She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
By Loki Mulholland and Angela Fairwell
Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss
By Aram Goudsouzian and Bill Murray (Illustrator)
A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
By Joe Bateman and Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Edited By Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya
Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers & Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer
By Elizabeth Martinez, Julian Bond
The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy Administration, 1960-1964
By James P. Marshall
Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi
By Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner
To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
Edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale
T.R.M. Howard Doctor: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer
David T. Beito, Linda Royster Beito, Jerry W. Mitchell (Foreword by), David & Linda Beito (Afterword by)
Voices From the Mississippi Hill Country: The Benton County Civil Rights Movement
By Roy Deberry, Aviva Futorian, and Stephen Klein
