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Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman's Race for the Presidency
By Sudipta Bardhan Quallen, Courtney A Martin
Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story *
By Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Bettye Stroud, John Holyfield (Illustrator)
Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
By Sheyann Webb, Rachel West Nelson, and Frank Sikora
The Teachers March! How Selma's Teachers Changed History *
By Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace, and Charly Palmer (Illustrator)
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement*
By Carole Boston Weatherford
One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally
By Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965
By Ann D. Gordon (Editor), Joyce A. Berkman (Editor), John H. Bracey (Editor)
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by)
Lessons from Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements
By Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold, Sylvia Braselmann
