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Here are selected titles for young readers. For more on Voting Rights, visit Zinn Education Project and Civil Rights Teaching for free downloadable lessons and recommended resources.

See more recommended titles: Civil Rights Teaching: SNCC,  Civil Rights for the classroom

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(*).

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 and Bettye Stroud

The Day Gogo Went to Vote

By Elinor Batezat Sisulu

 

Freedom School, Yes!

By Amy Littlesugar and Floyd Cooper

 

Granddaddy’s Turn – A Journey to the Ballot Box

By Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein

 

Lillian’s Right to Vote

By Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans

 

Papa’s Mark

By Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert

 

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement*

By Carole Boston Weatherford

Because They Marched

By Russell Freedman

Crow

By Barbara Wright

 

Letters from Mississippi

Edited by Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez, Introduction by Julian Bond

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

By Evette Dionne

One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally

By Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden

Stella by Starlight

By Sharon M Draper

Stolen Justice

By Lawrence Goldstone

To Write in the Light of Freedom

Edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale

African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965

By Ann D. Gordon (Editor), Joyce A. Berkman (Editor), John H. Bracey (Editor)

Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote

By Gordon A. Martin, Jr.

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

By Ari Berman

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by)

Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era

By Laura Free

Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

By Gilda R. Daniels

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