Annotated Bibliography - Social Reform Movements
Author
Title
Publisher
Annotation
Movement
Level
Winner of 2004 Pulitzer Prize in History. This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed
themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central
political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more
expansive ways about the nature and boundaries of politics and political practice. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
The author gives us the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began; how it was in part started in protest against the
ritualistic rape of black women by white men who used economic intimidation, sexual violence, and terror to derail the freedom movement;
and how those forces persisted unpunished throughout the Jim Crow era when white men assaulted black women to enforce rules of racial
and economic hierarchy. Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled civil rights campaigns throughout the
South that began during World War II and went through to the Black Power movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was the baptism, not
the birth, of that struggle. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965 begins where many histories of the civil rights movement end, with King's
triumphant march from the iconic battleground of Selma to Montgomery. Timothy J. Minchin and John Salmond focus on events in the
South following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. After the Dream examines the social, economic,
and political implications of these laws in the decades following their passage, discussing the empowerment of black southerners, white
resistance, accommodation and acceptance, and the nation's political will. The book also provides a fascinating history of the oftenoverlooked period of race relations during the presidential administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, and both George H. W. and George W.
Bush. Ending with the election of President Barack Obama, this study will influence contemporary historiography on the civil rights
movement. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
New Press, 2009
Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal
brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker,
Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. The book then moves into the critical postwar era, when, with a string of legal victories culminating in
Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim
Crow. An epic narrative of struggle against injustice, Lift Every Voice lays a new foundation for understanding the modern civil rights
movement.
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
Lucent, 2011
Lucent Library of Black History: African-American history is significant and integral to the larger history of the United States. Emboldening
this dynamic, the Lucent Library of Black History places important topics in context so that readers will understand the connection between
black history and the sweep of America?s story. This high-quality series focuses on both broad movements like Black Nationalism, as well
as more narrowly defined events such as Reconstruction. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
Routledge, 2010
Race and National Power: A Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights from 1862 to 1954 gathers together a collection of primary documents on the
history of law and civil rights, specifically in regard to race. The sources covered include key Supreme Court decisions, some opinions from
other courts as well, and texts written by ordinary people – the victims and perpetrators of racism and the lawmakers who wrote the
statutes the courts must interpret. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
Penguin Books
Reprint, 2011
In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial
episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college
students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their
arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku
Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent
change in America. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
African American Rights - Adult
Hahn, Steven
A Nation under Our Feet: Black
Belknap Press of
Political Struggles in the Rural South Harvard University
from Slavery to the Great Migration Press, 2005
At the Dark End of the Street: Black
Women, Rape, and Resistance--A
New History of the Civil Rights
McGuire, Danielle Movement from Rosa Parks to the
L
Rise of Black Power
Vintage Repring,
2011
After the Dream: Black and White
Minchin, Timothy Southerners since 1965 (Civil Rights
and Salmond,
and the Struggle for Black Equality
University Press of
John
in the Twentieth Century)
Kentucky, 2011
Sullivan, Patricia
Uschan, Michael
Waldrep,
Christopher
Lift Every Voice: The Naacp and the
Making of the Civil Rights
Movement
The March from Selma to
Montgomery
Race and National Power: A
Sourcebook of Black Civil Rights
from 1862 to 1954
Watson, Bruce
Freedom Summer: The Savage
Season of 1964 That Made
Mississippi Burn and Made America
a Democracy
Webb, Clive
Rabble Rousers: The American Far
Right in the Civil Rights Era (Politics
and Culture in the TwentiethUniversity of Georgia
Century South)
Press, 2010
Rabble Rousers turns traditional top-down models of massive resistance on their head by telling the story of five far-right activists—Bryant
Bowles, John Kasper, Rear Admiral John Crommelin, Major General Edwin Walker, and J. B. Stoner—who led grassroots rebellions. It casts
new light on such contentious issues as the role of white churches in defending segregation, the influence of anti-Semitism in southern
racial politics, and the divisive impact of class on white unity. The flame of the far right burned brilliantly but briefly. In the final analysis,
violent extremism weakened the cause of white southerners. Tactical and ideological tensions among massive resisters, as well as the
strength and unity of civil rights activists, accelerated the destruction of Jim Crow. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
Radicalizing the Ebony Tower: Black
Colleges and the Black Freedom
Teachers College
Struggle in Mississippi
Press, 2008
This path-breaking examination of Black colleges in Mississippi during Civil Rights and Black Power Movements offers a unique opportunity
to understand how institutions are transformed into libratory agents. Williamson examines how campus constituents negotiated and
clashed over local, state, and national pressures against the backdrop of the highly contentious conflict between those determined to
protect racial hierarchy and others equally determined to cripple white supremacy. She shows how students challenged the notion of the
university as an ivory tower aloof from community affairs and documents how these colleges tried to resolve the tension between activism
and academics. Through the words and deeds of actual participants, this profoundly moving account also provides firsthand knowledge of
how students balanced their pursuit of higher education with campus and societal reform.
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
Palgrave Macmillan;
Reprint edition, 2011
A top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young has been a witness to history and has made his own. During the cvil rights movement,
he worked tirelessly as a strategist and negotiator during the campaigns that resulted in the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting
Rights Act, and was at Martin Luther King, Jr.’s side when he was assassinated. For years, in correspondence and conversation, he has been
mentoring his godson, Kabir Sehgal. In this entertaining and provocative discourse, Young shares his thoughts and meditations on such
important topics as race, civil rights, faith, and leadership. Young offers his wisdom on these subjects to a new generation of young men
and women in hopes that his battle-tested voice will inspire and encourage those in whose hands the world will soon rest. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Adult
Through My Eyes
Scholastic Press,
1999
Winner of the Carter G. Woodson and Jane Addams Book Awards. In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black
girl, surrounded by federal Marshall's, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights
movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Freedom Train
Margaret K.
McElderry, an imprint
of Simon & Schuster
Children's Publishing,
2008
In 1947, the Freedom Train showcased important American documents in celebrations around the country. Against that background, Clyde
Thomason, who is white, confronts issues of segregation, prejudice, and violence and chooses his own stance. Author’s Note. National
Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Roaring Brook Press,
2012
On August 28, 1963, a remarkable event took place--more than 250,000 people gathered in our nation's capital to participate in the March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march began at the Washington Monument and ended with a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, advocating racial harmony. Many words have been written about that
day, but few so delicate and powerful as those presented here by award-winning author and illustrator Shane W. Evans. When combined
with his simple yet compelling illustrations, the thrill of the day is brought to life for even the youngest reader to experience. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Aladdin Reprint
Edition, 2008
There's a place in this 1950s southern town where all are welcome, no matter what their skin color...and 'Tricia Ann knows exactly how to
get there. To her, it's someplace special and she's bursting to go by herself. When her grandmother sees that she's ready to take such a big
step, 'Tricia Ann hurries to catch the bus heading downtown. But unlike the white passengers, she must sit in the back behind the Jim Crow
sign and wonder why life's so unfair. Her grandmother's words -- "You are somedbody, a human being -- no better, no worse than
anybody else in this world" -- echo in her head, lifting her spirits and pushing her forward. Patricia C. McKissack's poignant story of
growing up in the segregated South and Jerry Pinkney's rich, detailed watercolors lead readers to the doorway of freedom. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Williamson, Joy
Ann
Walk in My Shoes: Conversations
Young, Andrew
between a Civil Rights Legend and
and Sehgal, Kabir his Godson on the Journey Ahead
African American Rights - Elementary
Bridges, Ruby
Coleman, Evelyn
Evans, Shane W.
McKissack,
Pattricia C.
McKissack,
Pattricia C.
We March
Goin' Someplace Special
The Home-Run King (Scraps of
Time)
Viking Children's
Books, 2008
Told through the eyes of two boys from Nashville during the Depression, this story focuses on Josh Gibson, “the home run king,” and the
influential role of Negro League baseball in the lives of the community. Author’s Note, Timeline. National Council for the Social Studies –
Notable Trade Book
The first day of school is filled with a bit of fear and excitement for every child. But for Brewster, who is African American, it is especially
momentous because he and his brother will be attending the previously all-white school across town. Through this engaging story, young
readers learn about forced busing and its effects on children in the early 1970s following the Supreme Court’s decision to further the
integration of schools. Author’s Note. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Busing Brewster
Alfred A. Knopf
Books for Young
Readers, 2010
Myers, Walter
Dean
Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told
Amistad, an imprint
of Harper Collins,
2008
This is the story of activist, educator, journalist, and suffragist Ida B. Wells who risked her life to educate the world about the horrors of
lynching and about the unequal treatment of African Americans. Timeline, Quotations. - National Council for the Social Studies - Notable
Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Pinkney, Andrea
Davis
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks
Inspired a Nation
Greenwillow Books,
2008
Poetic text and riveting colored ink on clay board illustrations recall the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Supreme Court
ruling to end segregation. Author’s Note, Suggestions for Further Reading. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
This poetically written and beautifully illustrated book tells how the simple, brave, non-violent actions of four young college students
changed America. Interspersed throughout the text are lines from the writings and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The colorful,
imaginative illustrations will grab the interest of children. Civil Rights Timeline, Additional Notes. National Council for the Social Studies –
Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
Candlewick Press,
2010
This author/illustrator brings to life the dream of a boy in an era of segregation. With Jackie Robinson as a role model, Aaron journeys from
Negro Leagues to the minors, and finally to the majors. Author’s Note, Aaron’s Baseball Statistics, Bibliography. National Council for the
Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Elementary
National Geographic
Children's Books,
2010
This book tells the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement. Young adults will learn about the victories
and heroes who fought against white supremacy. Selected Primary Documents, Bibliography, Quote Sources, Index. National Council for the
Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Dutton's Children's
Books, 2008
Based loosely on the author’s own memories, this book tells the parallel stories of Duvy Greenberg, a 12-year-old boy whose father is a
civil rights lawyer, and Dorothy Milton, a black woman attempting to vote in Selma, Alabama. As Martin Luther King Jr. and Duvy’s father try
to help Dorothy, Duvy learns what racial inequality is really about. Photographs, Author’s Note, Afterword by Jack Greenberg, civil rights
attorney. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward
Justice
Square Fish; Reprint
Edition, 2010
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet
largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court
case that would change the course of American history. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Sources of Light
Houghton Mifflin
Books for Children,
2010
This is the story of a young, white girl living with her mother in Mississippi, in 1962, as the civil rights movement gains steam. Sam, as she
is called, uses photography to make sense of life and the turmoil around her. Author’s Note. National Council for the Social Studies –
Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Michelson,
Richard
D is for Drinking Gourd: An African
Sanders, Nancy I. American Alphabet
Slade, Suzanne
Climbing Lincoln's Steps: The
Aftican American Journey
Sleeping Bear Press
Colin Bootman,
Albert Whitman &
Company, 2010
Spinkney, Andrea Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Brown Books for
Davis
Sitting Down
Young Readers, 2010
Tavares, Matt
Hernry Aaron's Dream
Twenty-six monumental moments in African American history are highlighted in an A-Z format with captivating illustrations. Sidebar texts
offer additional details for the more advanced reader. Selected Reference List. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
The author uses the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial as a metaphor for the many steps that African Americans have taken towards
equality and justice. She describes the historic events on those steps, from Marian Anderson’s performance to Martin Luther King Jr.’s
speech, and finally to a visit by the first African American president and his family. Timeline. National Council for the Social Studies –
Notable Trade Book
African American Rights - Middle School
Bowers, Rick
Brimner, Larry
Dane
Draper, Sharon
M.
Spies of Mississippi
Birmingham Sunday
Boyds Mills Press,
2010
Fire from the Rock
Dutton Children's
Books, a division of
Penguin Young
Readers Group, 2007
Greenberg,
A Tugging String: Anovel about
Dutton Children's Growing Up during the Civil Rights
Books
Era
Hoose, Philip
McMullan,
Margaret
Myers, Walter
Dean
Harlem Summer
Scholastic Press,
2007
This extraordinary book describes the tragic 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four young girls. Original photographs and
primary source documents help place that day in the historical context of the civil rights struggle. National Council for the Social Studies –
Notable Trade Book
Sylvia is asked to consider being one of the students to integrate Little Rock Central High School. This is an excellent portrayal of the
process, stress, and fear involved in choosing “The Nine.” Author’s Note, Related Website List. National Council for the Social Studies –
Notable Trade Book
This coming-of-age novel chronicles the summer adventures of 16-year-old Mark Purvis, working in the publishing office of W.E.B.
Dubois’s The Crisis in 1925 Harlem. The author skillfully interweaves fiction with historical events and figures. Photo Credits, Real People
and Places. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Nelson, Marilyn
A Wreath for Emmett Till
Graphia Reprint
Edition, 2009
"In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for
supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till
Mobley, and the aquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention." In a profound and chilling poem, award winning poet
Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known
but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to "speak what we see." - African American
Literature Book Club
Stokes, John
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil
Rights, Brown, and Me
National Geographic
Children's Books,
2008
This is an evocative and emotionally charged examination of life for African Americans before the civil rights movement. The author
explores a myriad of events that led to the end of Jim Crow laws and the separate but equal policy. Photographs, Author’s Note,
Bibliography.National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Compass Point
Books, 2011
In May 1963 news photographer Charles Moore was on hand to document the Childrens Crusade, a civil rights protest. But the photographs
he took that day did more than document an event; they helped change history. His photograph of a trio of African-American teenagers
being slammed against a building by a blast of water from a fire hose was especially powerful. The image of this brutal treatment turned
Americans into witnesses at a time when hate and prejudice were on trial. It helped rally the civil rights movement and energized the
public, making civil rights a national problem needing a national solution. And it paved the way for Congress to finally pass laws to give
citizens equal rights regardless of the color of their skin. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Compass Point
Books, 2011
Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the
photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school a young girl being taunted, harassed and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the
worlds attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas. A chilling photo by newspaper photographer Will Counts captured
the sneering expression of a girl in the mob and made history. Years later Counts snapped another photo, this one of the same two girls,
now grownup, reconciling in front of Central High School. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Amistad Reprint,
2011
Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, One Crazy Summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls
who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 in search of the mother who abandoned them. It's an unforgettable story told by a distinguished
author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia. - Publisher
Civil Rights - African
American
Middle School
Paradigm Publishers,
2008
In this pathbreaking book sociologists Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin examine, for the first time in depth, racial stereotyping and
discrimination daily faced by Asian Americans long viewed by whites as the model minority. Drawing on more than 40 field interviews
across the country, they examine the everyday lives of Asian Americans in numerous different national origin groups. Their data contrast
sharply with white-honed, especially media, depictions of racially untroubled Asian American success. . . This book destroys any naïve
notion that Asian Americans are universally favored by whites and have an easy time adapting to life in this still racist society. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
Houghton Mifflin
Company, 2003
This collection, designed to be the primary anthology or textbook for courses in Asian American history, covers the subject's entire
chronological span. The volume presents a carefully selected group of readings that requires students to evaluate primary sources, test the
interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
Coffee House Press,
2003
When a restaurant review referred to a Filipino child as a "rambunctious -little monkey," Filipino Americans were outraged. Sparked by this
racist incident, Screaming Monkeys sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it -illuminates the diverse and often neglected history and
culture within the Asian American diaspora. Poems, essays, paintings, and stories break down and challenge "found" articles, photographs,
and headlines to create this powerful anthology with all the immediacy of social protest. By closely critiquing a wealth of material, including
the judge’s statement of apology in the Wen Ho Lee case, the media treatment of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, and the image of Asian
Americans in major U.S. marketing campaigns, Screaming Monkeys will inspire all its readers. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
The Children of Chinatown: Growing
Up Chinese American in San
University of North
Francisco, 1850-1920
Carolina Press, 2009
Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly
children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing
interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and
Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate
Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of
immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to
build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome
racism and realize the ideal of equality. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
Strangers from a Different Shore: A
History of Asian Americans,
Updated and Revised Edition
Little, Brown, and
Company; Revised
Edition, 1998
In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian
Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of
"picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the
barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate &
culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will
resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
Basic Books; Reprint
Edition, 2003
Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist,
scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the
twenty-first century. Wu examines affirmative action, globalization, immigration, and other controversial contemporary issues through the
lens of the Asian-American experience. Mixing personal anecdotes, legal cases, and journalistic reporting, Wu confronts damaging AsianAmerican stereotypes such as "the model minority" and "the perpetual foreigner." By offering new ways of thinking about race in American
society, Wu's work dares us to make good on our great democratic experiment. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
Contemporary Asian America
(second edition): A Multidisciplinary NYU Press; 2nd
Reader
Edition, 2007
When Contemporary Asian America was first published, it exposed its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as
part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at
the century's end. This new edition features a number of fresh entries and updated material. It covers such topics as Asian American
activism, immigration, community formation, family relations, gender roles, sexuality, identity, struggle for social justice, interethnic
conflict/coalition, and political participation. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
Asian American Dreams: The
Emergence of an American People
Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2001
This groundbreaking book traces the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups
into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the events that shocked Asian Americans
into motion and shaped a new consciousness. Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, writes as a personal witness to the dramatic
changes involving Asian Americans. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Adult
Chicago Review
Press, 2007
Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Asian American cultures and teach them about the people,
experiences, and events that have shaped Asian American history. This book is broken down into sections covering American descendents
from various Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Topics include the history of
immigration from Asian countries, important events in U.S. history, sidebars on famous Asian Americans, language lessons, and activities
that highlight arts, games, food, clothing, unique celebrations, and folklore. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Elementary
Graphia, 1993
Sixteen-year-old Danny Vo is enmeshed in two worlds—his Houston high school and his Vietnamese home life. He’s finally caught the eye
of beautiful blond Tiffany Marie, only to find out that her brother is a white supremacist. And his life gets even more complicated when his
cousin Sang Le comes to live with Danny’s family after spending years in a reeducation camp in Vietnam. Failing school and unable to get a
job, Sang Le joins a Vietnamese gang—and Danny is determined to help his cousin escape before it’s too late. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Middle School
Scholastic Press;
Reprint Edition, 2010
With this sweeping tale of life on the World War II homefront, Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings her incredible talent to the Dear
America series. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, America is finally unable to ignore the wars raging in Europe and Asia any longer. And one
girl's entire life is about to change when everything she knows is turned on its head. After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, where
her brother, a navy sailor, is stationed, Piper Davis begins chronicling her compelling journey through one of history's most tragic and
unforgettable eras. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Middle School
Scholastic, 1998
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Young Shi Nomura was among the 120,000 American citizens who lost everything when he
was sent by the U.S. government to Manzanar, an interment camp in the California desert, simply because he was of Japanese ancestry. Publisher
Civil Rights - Asian
American
Middle School
University of Texas
Press, 2011
¡Chicana Power! provides a critical genealogy of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc,
one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women's political
participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano nationalism in the movement and in the formation of the field of Chicana
studies. She uncovers the multifaceted vision of liberation that continues to reverberate today as contemporary activists, artists, and
intellectuals, both grassroots and academic, struggle for, revise, and rework the political legacy of Chicana feminism. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Stanford University
Press, 2010
Weaving the stories of Mexican and Central American women with history and analysis of the anti-immigrant upsurge in 1990s California,
this compelling book examines the impact of reform legislation on individual women's lives and their engagement in grassroots political
organizing. Their accounts of personal and political transformation offer a new vision of politics rooted in concerns as disparate as
domestic violence, childrearing, women's self-esteem, and immigrant and workers' rights. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Universtiy of North
Carolina Press, 2011
This fascinating testimonio, or oral history, transcribed and presented in Castro's voice by historian Mario T. Garcia, is a compelling, highly
readable narrative of a young boy growing up in Los Angeles who made history by his leadership in the blowouts and in his career as a
dedicated and committed teacher. Blowout! fills a major void in the history of the civil rights and Chicano movements of the 1960s,
particularly the struggle for educational justice. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Tougas, Shelley
Tougas, Shelley
Marie
Williams-Garcia,
Rita
Birmingham 1963: How a
Photograph Rallied Civil Rights
Support
Little Rock Girl 1957; How a
Photograph Changed the Fight for
Integration
One Crazy Summer
Asian American Rights - Adult
Chou, Rosalind S.
and Feagin, Joe
The Myth of the Model Minority:
R.
Asian Americans Facing Racism
Daniels, Roger
Galang, M.
Evelina
Rouse, Jorae
Wendy
Takaki, Ronald
Wu, Frank
Zhou, Min and
Gatewood, J.V.
Zia, Helen
Major Problems in Asian American
History: Documents and Essays
(Major Problems in American
History)
Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of
Asian American Images
Yellow: Race in America Beyond
Black and White
Asian American Rights - Elementary
Petrillo, Valerie
A Kid's Guide to Asian American
History: More than 70 Activities (A
Kid's Guide series)
Asian American Rights - Middle School
Garland, Sherry
Shadow of the Dragon
Larson, Kirby
Dear America: The Fences Between
Us
Stanley, Jerry
I am an American: A True Story of
Japanese Internment
Latino & Mexican American Rights - Adult
¡Chicana Power!: Contested
Histories of Feminism in the
Blackwell, Maylei Chicano Movement
Coll, Kathleen
Remaking Citizenship: Latina
Immigrants and New American
Politics
Garcia, Mario T.
and Castro, Sal
Blowout!: Sal Castro and the
Chicano Struggle for Educational
Justice
Munoz, Carlos
Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Verso; Revised and
Movement (Revised and Expanded
Expanded Edition,
Edition)
2007
Carlos Muñoz places the Chicano Movement in the context of the political and intellectual development of people of Mexican descent in the
USA, tracing the emergence of student activists and intellectuals in the 1930s and their initial challenge to the dominant white racial and
class ideologies. He then documents the rise and fall of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it within the 1960s civil rights and
radical movements and assessing the Chicano Movement's contribution to the development of the Mexican American population and the
Latino population as a whole. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Orozco, Cynthia
No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs
Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican
American Civil Rights Movement
University of Texas
Press, 2009
Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to
Chicano nationalist standards of the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the personal papers of
Alonso S. Perales and Adela Sloss-Vento, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed presents the history of LULAC in a new light, restoring its
early twentieth-century context. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Oxford University
Press 10th Edition,
2008
From Out of the Shadows was the first full study of Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. Beginning with the first wave of
Mexican women crossing the border early in the century, historian Vicki L. Ruiz reveals the struggles they have faced and the communities
they have built. In a narrative enhanced by interviews and personal stories, she shows how from labor camps, boxcar settlements, and
urban barrios, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks, and participated in community
associations--efforts that helped Mexican Americans find their own place in America. She also narrates the tensions that arose between
generations, as the parents tried to rein in young daughters eager to adopt American ways. Finally, the book highlights the various forms of
political protest initiated by Mexican-American women, including civil rights activity and protests against the war in Vietnam. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Oxford University
Press, 2010
Latinos in the U.S. are a major political, economic, and cultural force which is changing the national identity of this country. In fact,
statistics show that by the year 2100, half of the United States population may be Latino. And two of every three of America's Latinos are
Mexican. Mexicans are the oldest settelers of the United States, and they are also the nation's largest group of recent immigrant arrivals.
Their population is increasing faster than that of all other Latino groups combined. The growing importance of this minority group, which
will be felt strongly in twenty-first century America, calls for a fresh assessment of Mexican American history. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Haymarket Books;
Reprint Edition, 2011
In 1969, a group of young Puerto Rican activists founded the Young Lords Party in New York City, taking inspiration from the Black
Panthers. Palante, the first book by and about the radical organization, is brought back into print here with new introductory material.
Capturing the spirit and actions of the sixties movements, Palante features political essays by members, oral histories of their lives leading
into the party, and more than seventy-five photos of their vibrant membership and actions. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Adult
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Elementary
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Middle School
When I was growing up, I never read anything in school by anyone who had a "Z" in their last name. This anthology is, in many ways, a
public gift to that child who was always searching for herself whithin the pages of a book. - from the Introduction by Tiffany Ana Lopez
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Middle School
Esteemed Latin American scholar and writer Ilan Stavans, supported by more than forty photographs from archival collections at the Cesar
E. Chavez Foundation, restores this man’s humanity so that readers can understand his struggles as a labor organizer and civil rights
activist for farm workers. Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay, a 2011 Skipping Stones honor award book, discusses Chavez' growing up
years and his family; his comadre Dolores Huerta, who stood with him from the beginning; his relationship with Dr. King and other activists
in the broader struggles for civil rights for all people of color; and his insistence on being an activist for the rights of farm workers when so
much media attention was given to the civil rights activists in the cities. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Latino
Mexican
Middle School
Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service, now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying
out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and
Mothers, Cathleen Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the agency during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Ruiz, Vicki L.
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican
Women in Twentieth-Century
America
Crucible of Struggle: A History of
Mexican Americans from the
Vargas, Zaragosa Colonial Period to the Present Era
Young Lords
Party
Palante: Young Lords Party
Latino & Mexican American Rights - Elementary
Lane, Kimberly
Come Look with Me: Latin American
Art
Charlesbridge, 2007
An interactive introduction to artists and their artwork. Beautiful reproductions of artworks are accompanied by thought-provoking
questions that help understand the artists and their works. Preface, How To Use This Book. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable
Trade Book
Latino & Mexican American Rights - Middle School
Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street
Vintage, 1991
Lopez, Tiffany
Ana
William Morrow
Paperbacks; Reprint,
1995
Stavans, Ilan
Growing Up Chicana/o
Cinco Puntos Press,
César Chávez: A Photographic Essay 2010
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and
translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes –
sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who
and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers. - Publisher
Native American Rights - Adult
Cahill, Cathleen
Federal Fathers and Mothers: A
Social History of the United States
Indian Service, 1869-1933 (First
Peoples: New Directions in
Indigenous Studies
Child, Brenda J.
Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe
Women and the Survival of the
Community
Viking Adult, 2012
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role
in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities were, in fact, organized around women's labor, the
sanctity of mothers, and the wisdom of female elders. In this well-researched and deeply felt account of the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and
the Mississippi River, Brenda J. Child details the ways in which women have shaped Native American life from the days of early trade with
Europeans through the reservation era and beyond. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Native Activism in Cold War
America: The Struggle for
Sovereignty
Cobb takes readers inside the early movement--from D'Arcy McNickle's founding of American Indian Development, Inc. and Vine Deloria
Jr.'s tenure as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians to Clyde Warrior's leadership in the National Indian Youth
Council--and describes how early activists forged connections between their struggle and anticolonialist movements in the developing
world. He also describes how the War on Poverty's Community Action Programs transformed Indian Country by training bureaucrats and
tribal leaders alike in new political skills and providing activists with the leverage they needed to advance the movement toward selfdetermination. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Beyond Red Power: American Indian
Politics and Activism Since 1900
(School for Advanced Research
School for Advanced
Global Indigenous Politics)
Research Press, 2007
How do we explain not just the survival of Indian people in the United States against very long odds but their growing visibility and political
power at the opening of the twenty-first century? Within this one story of indigenous persistence are many stories of local, regional,
national, and international activism that require a nuanced understanding of what it means to be an activist or to act in politically
purposeful ways. Even the nearly universal demand for sovereignty encompasses multiple definitions that derive from factors both external
and internal to Indian communities. Struggles over the form and membership of tribal governments, fishing rights, dances, casinos,
language revitalization, and government recognition constitute arenas in which Indians and their non-Indian allies ensure the survival of
tribal community and sovereignty. Whether contesting termination locally, demanding reparations for stolen lands in the federal courts, or
placing their case for decolonization in a global context, American Indians use institutions and political rhetorics that they did not
necessarily create to their own ends. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Hoxie, Frederick
E.
Talking Back To Civilization: Indian
Voices from the Progressive Era
Bedford/ St. Martins,
(Bedford Series in History & Culture) 2001
As progressive reformers took on America’s ills at the start of the twentieth century, a new generation of Native American reformers took
on America, "talking back" to the civilization that had overrun but not crushed their own. This volume offers a collection of 21 primary
sources, including journal articles, testimony, and political cartoons by Native Americans of the Progressive Era, who worked in a variety of
fields to defend their communities and culture. Their voices are organized into 7 topical chapters on subjects such as native religion,
education, and Indian service in World War I. Spanning the period from the 1893 Columbian Expedition to the 1920s' congressional land
hearings, this rich array of voices fills an important gap in the chronology of Native American studies. An engaging introduction focusing
on the intellectual leaders of the protest efforts includes background on the Progressive Era, while headnotes for each document, striking
illustrations, a chronology of major events, and a bibliography support the firsthand accounts. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Johnson, Troy
The American Indian Occupation of
Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self- University of
Determination
Nebraska Press, 2008
The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world
on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. In this detailed examination of the takeover, Troy R. Johnson tells the story
of those who organized the occupation and those who participated, some by living on the island and others by soliciting donations of
money, food, water, clothing, and other necessities. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Citizen Indians: Native American
Intellectuals, Race, and Reform
Cornell University
Press, 2006
By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas, civic
pageants, expositions, and fairs, American Indians were most often cast as victims, noble remnants of a vanishing race, or docile
candidates for complete assimilation. However, as Lucy Maddox demonstrates in Citizen Indians, some prominent Indian intellectuals of the
era-including Gertrude Bonnin, Charles Eastman, and Arthur C. Parker-were able to adapt and reshape the forms of public performance as
one means of entering the national conversation and as a core strategy in the pan-tribal reform efforts that paralleled other Progressiveera reform movements. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Minnesota Historical
Society Press, 2002
Minnesota Book Award Winner. In stark, haunting prose, first-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of
Minnesota. Told in flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor manages to piece together the shattered fragments of
his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel. Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Razor
spent his childhood at the hands of abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than 'a dirty Injun'. He endures years of beatings
'with a broom or radiator brush -- whatever was handy' until, one night while he is asleep, one of the matrons attacks him with a hammer.
Fearing for his life, he makes two failed attempts to run away from the orphanage. Quickly labelled a trouble-maker, he is later indentured
as a hired hand to a farm family. The farmer beats him, clothes him in rags, and treats him like a slave, often working him to exhaustion
without food or water. Remarkably, Razor struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life, but first he must endure the
darkest and most vicious attack yet. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
Now in its third edition, American Indian Politics is the most comprehensive study written from a political science perspective that analyzes
the structures and functions of indigenous governments (including Alaskan Native communities and Hawaiian Natives) and the distinctive
legal and political rights these nations exercise internally, while also examining the fascinating intergovernmental relationship that exists
between native nations, the states, and the federal government. The third edition contains a number of important modifications. First, it is
now co-authored by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, who brings a spirited new voice to the study. Second, it contains ample discussion of
how President ObamaOs election has altered the dynamics of Indian Country politics and law. Third, it contains more discussion of
women's issues, several new vignettes, an updated timeline, new photographs, and updated charts, tables, and figures. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Adult
In 1871, a five-year-old Yawapati boy was kidnapped by Pima Indians and sold to a white man. This true story details the boy’s struggles,
adventures, and longing for his family, and how he grew up to become a doctor and advocate for Native American rights. Afterword,
Bibliography. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - Native
American
Elementary
Civil Rights - Native
American
Elementary
In 1863 General James Carleton, military commander of the U.S. territory of New Mexico issued an order that all Navajos were to be
rounded up and forced to live on a reservation that was some 400 miles from their homeland. He, like most white people at the time,
thought that the Navajos were lawless raiders who needed to be "weaned of their old ways." He felt it was his job to "kill the Indian" and
"save the man." If Carleton had taken time to find out about the Navajo people, he would have learned that their raids were in retaliation for
raids by others on them. Most Navajos wanted peace, but every treaty they signed cost them land and was quickly broken. Kit Carson was
put in charge of carrying out Carleton's orders. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Elementary
Little, Brown Books
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- for Young Readers;
Time Indian
Reprint Edition, 2009
Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future
into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is
the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the
author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one
Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Middle School
Hidden Roots
"Hidden Roots" focuses on the great impact that generations of Abenaki had to deal with. Readers will learn about the loss of identity,
history and culture;lack of self worth and fear that Abenaki people were feeling, and still feel today. Middle grade readers love to see life as
"being fair", and will totally understand that life is not fair in this story. This is a book that should be read in every middle school class, so
that this history will not be forgotten, and never be repeated. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Native
American
Middle School
After the navy declares Jay’s father Missing in Action, Jay and his mother move to her hometown in Utah near a prison camp for Japanese
Americans. Jay struggles with his own prejudicial views even as he is teased for his ¼ Navajo heritage.National Council for the Social Studies
– Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - Native
American
Middle School
With skill, bravery, and agility, Mohawk ironworkers built America’s skyscrapers and bridges. They walked the girders and leaped from one
beam to another, hundreds and even thousands of feet in the air. Period drawings and photographs highlight the enormity of their
achievements. Author’s Note, Glossary, Source Notes, Index. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights - Native
American
Middle School
Anchor, 2011
In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social,
political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character-driven narrative not only restores to our collective memory the indelible
story of American labor, it also demonstrates the importance of the fight for fairness and economic democracy, and why that effort remains
so urgent today. - Publisher
Labor
Adult
Wiley-Blackwell; 8
edition (January 19,
2010)
In preparing this new edition of his classic text Professor Dubofsky has hewn to the lines laid out in the previous seven in seeking to
encourage today’s students of labor history to learn about those who built the United States and who will shape its future.In addition to
taking the narrative right up to the present, a recent history that includes the election of 2008 as well as the tumultuous blow suffered by
the U.S. and world economy in 2008-09, this eighth edition features an entirely new (fourth) bank of photographs and, in light of the
avalanche of new scholarly work over the last decade, a complete overhauling of the book’s extensive and critical Further Readings section
in order to note the very best works from the profuse recent scholarship that explores the history of working people in all its diversity. Publisher
Labor
Adult
M.E. Sharpe, 2002
Hindman (labor, Appalachian State Univ.) introduces his topic with historical background, followed by substantive descriptions of child
labor in the budding industries of early 20th-century America (coal mines, glass factories, textile mills, tenement sweat shops, street
trades, and agriculture), using information largely culled from the National Child Labor Committee's (NCLC) 19-volume investigative
reports. The book's content is enriched with captioned photographs by Lewis Wicks Hines, who was an active investigator with the
influential NCLC in the early 1900s. Highly recommended for academic and general public libraries. - Publisher
Labor
Adult
From the Folks Who Brought You
the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated
History of Labor in the United States New Press, 2003
Hailed in a starred Publishers Weekly review as a work of "impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity...that gracefully handles a broad
range of subject matter," From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend is the first comprehensive look at American history through the
prism of working people. From indentured servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in
contemporary Silicon Valley, the book "[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the
evolution of organized labor" - Library Journal
Labor
Adult
Industrial Violence and the Legal
Origins of Child Labor (Cambridge
Historical Studies in American Law
and Society)
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the
meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression. Rather than locating these shifts
in statutory reform or economic development, it finds the origin in litigations that occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by
young workers. Drawing on archival case records from the Appalachian South between the 1880s and the 1920s, the book argues that
young workers and their families envisioned an industrial childhood that rested on negotiating safe workplaces, a vision at odds with child
labor reform. Local court battles over industrial violence confronted working people with a legal language of childhood incapacity and
slowly moved them to accept the lexicon of child labor. In this way, the law fashioned the broad social relations of modern industrial
childhood. - Publisher
Labor
Adult
Sandpiper Reprint,
2003
By the early 1900s, nearly two million children were working in the United States. From the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the cotton mills of
New England, children worked long hours every day under stunningly inhumane conditions. After years and years of oppression, children
began to organize and make demands for better wages, fairer housing costs, and safer working environments. Some strikes led by young
people were successful; some were not. Some strike stories are shocking, some are heartbreaking, and many are inspiring — but all are a
testimony to the strength of mind and spirit of the children who helped build American industry. - Publisher
Labor
Elementary
Labor
Elementary
Cobb, Daniel
Cobb, Daniel M.
and Fowler,
Loretta
Maddox, Lucy
Razor, Peter
While the Locust Slept: A Memoir
(Native Voices)
University of North
Carolina Press, 2011
University Press of
Kansas (Reprint),
2011
Wilkins, David
and Stark
American Indian Politics and the
American Political System (Spectrum Rowan and Littlefield
Series: Race and Ethnicity in
Publishers; Third
National and Global Politics)
Edition, 2010
Capaldi, Gina
A Boy Named Bechoning: The True
Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
Native American Hero
King, David C.
First People: An Illustrated History
of American Indians
Carolrhoda Books, a
division of Lerner
Publishing Group,
2008
DK Publishing, 2008
This book examines the history, culture, and artifacts of indigenous people in North America, while also looking at the struggles and
examples of resilience following contact with European settlers. This is an excellent condensed resource. It contains photographic, handdrawn, and reproductions of famous art to illustrate and complement the text. Glossary, Index, and Additional Reference Sources. National
Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Native American Rights - Elementary
Bruchac, Joseph
Navajo Long Walk : Tragic Story Of National Geographic
A Proud Peoples Forced March From Children's Books,
Homeland
2002
Native American Rights - Middle School
Alexie, Sherman
Bruchac, Joseph
Hughes, Dean
Missing in Action
Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers
Weitzman, David Build the City
Lulu.com, 2011
Simon & Schuster
Children's Publishing,
2010
Roaring Brook Press,
2010
Labor Rights (Including Child Labor) - Adult
Dray, Philip
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic
Story of Labor in America
Dubofsky, Melvyn
and Dulles,
Foster Rhea
Labor in America: A History
Hindman, Hugh
D.
Murolo, Priscilla
and Chitty, A.B.
Schmidt, James
D.
Child Labor: An American History
(Issues in Work and Human
Resources)
Cambridge University
Press, 2010
Labor Rights (Including Child Labor) - Elementary
Bartoletti, Susan
Campbell
Kids on Strike!
Freedman,
Russell
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the
Crusade Against Child Labor
Sandpaper Reprint,
1998
Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines's
photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws. Publisher
Isecke, Harriet
Child Labor and the Industrial
Revolution: The 20th Century
(Building Fluency Through Reader's
Theater)
Teacher Created
Materials; 2009
In 'Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution,' two sisters work in a linen mill under horrible conditions. Years later, the girls, now women,
are about to receive an honor for an interview with the National Child Labor Committee. - Publisher
Labor
Elementary
Steel Town
Antheneum, an
imprint of Simon &
Schuster Children's
Publishing, 2008
This is a lyrical account about life in an imaginary steel town, based on real towns of the 1930s. Through verse and dark, yet powerful,
images, the book helps to paint a vivid picture of life inside the mill and the surrounding community. National Council for the Social Studies
– Notable Trade Book
Labor
Elementary
Yearling, 2007
1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in
the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is
a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur
receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in
Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the
Child Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her
future, and her family’s future. - Publisher
Labor
Elementary
Compass Point
Books, 2011
Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions.
Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child labor was common in the United
States in the 19th century. It took the compelling, heart breaking photographs of Lewis Hine and others to bring the harsh working
conditions to light. Hine and his fellow Progressives wanted to end child labor. He knew photography would reveal the truth and teach and
change the world. With his camera Hine showed people what life was like for immigrants, the poor, and the children working in mines,
factories, and mills. In the words of an historian, the more than 7,000 photos Hine took of American children at work aroused public
sentiment against child labor in a way that no printed page or public lecture could. - Publisher
Labor
Middle School
Threads and Flames
Viking, 2010
A young girl from Poland travels to NYC, struggles to survive, and experiences the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911. This
book focuses on the immigrant experience, labor abuses, and the oppressive treatment of women. Author’s Note. National Council for the
Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Labor
Middle School
Uprising
Simon & Schustr
Books for Young
Readers, 2007
Bella, Yetta, and Jane march against unfair labor practices in the Shirtwaist Strike of 1909-10, only to find themselves engulfed in the
raging flames consuming the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25, 1911. Author’s Note, Recommended Reading.National Council for
the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Labor
Middle School
Sandpiper Reprint,
2008
Rosa’s mother is singing again—union songs. She’s joined the strike against the corrupt mill owners. Rosa is terrified. What if Mamma is
jailed or, worse, killed? Jake’s dad threatened to kill him if he joined the strike. For Jake, that is reason enough to do so. Then Rosa, Jake,
and the other children living in the middle of the strike are offered a very special opportunity: To live in Vermont until the strike is over. For
Rosa, being away from her family is worse than seeing them in harm’s way. For Jake, it’s a chance to start over. For both of them, it’s a time
of growing up. - Publisher
Labor
Elementary
Empire Books, 2012
Late at night on the streets of London, in 1883, Jane Addams came upon a crowd of poor, hungry people all struggling to outbid each other
for a measly supply of rotten vegetables. Haunted by the memory of their clutching, desperate hands, she continued her travels through
Europe, eventually settling in Chicago, where with her friend Ellen Starr she founded Hull-House. 20 Years at Hull-House details the history
of an inspiring institution that dedicated itself to providing a resource for cultural improvement to immigrant and poor communities
throughout Chicago. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers
worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year. Bad nights left him with
more than a dozen scars and over a decade in prisons from the Tombs and Sing Sing to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally
Insane, where he reunited with another inmate, his father. The child of Irish and Chinese immigrants, Appo grew up in the notorious Five
Points and Chinatown neighborhoods. He rose as an exemplar of the "good fellow," a criminal who relied on wile, who followed a code of
loyalty even in his world of deception. Here is the underworld of the New York that gave us Edith Wharton, Boss Tweed, Central Park, and
the Brooklyn Bridge. 60 illustrations - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
Longman, 2001
This book in the Seminar Studies in History series is a useful introduction to a key period in American history from the 1890s to the First
World War. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and consists of a brief
"Introduction" and/or "Background" to the subject, valuable in bringing the reader up-to-speed on the area being examined, followed by a
substantial and authoritative section of "Analysis" focusing on the main themes and issues. There is a succinct "Assessment" of the subject,
a generous selection of "Documents" and a detailed bibliography. Addresses the major issues of the period including the emergence of the
progressive movement in the 1890s, the expanded role of government, the measures implemented to bring political parties under control
and the role of women. Finally, Lewis Gould places progressivism in its historical perspective. For people interested in American history. Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
University of Chicago
Press, 2005
Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern
Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an
inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows
vividly what the settlement house actually was—a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings—and describes how Addams
learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local
politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights. These experiences, Knight makes clear,
transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life
philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle
class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution.
Before the Progressive Era most Americans lived on farms, working from before sunrise to after sundown every day except Sunday with
tools that had changed very little for centuries. Just three decades later, America was utterly transformed into a diverse, urban, affluent,
leisure-obsessed, teeming multitude. This explosive change was accompanied by extraordinary public-spiritedness as reformers-frightened by class conflict and the breakdown of gender relations--abandoned their traditional faith in individualism and embarked on a
crusade to remake other Americans in their own image. - Pulisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
W.W. Norton and
Company, 2008
Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban
and industrial society. Nell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill Moyers, which coincides
with the release of the updated edition of this acclaimed work. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
Teachers College
Press, 2002
Now published by Teachers College Press, thisclassic text includes new photographs and a new Introduction by Jeffrey Mirel that brings the
book up to date. Power and the Promise of School Reform remains the foremost volume to examine how grass-roots movements operated
during the early twentieth century to shape urban education in the United States. Carefully researched and elegantly written, Power and the
Promise of School Reform moves effortlessly from impassioned Socialist party meetings to smoky union halls, from fervent gatherings of
urban radicals to quiet teas with upper-class women reformers. Reese explores the ways in which these diverse community groups
struggled to make local schools responsive institutions in a time of dramatic change. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
University Press of
Mississippi, 2009
Using Hine's images, published articles, and private correspondence, Lewis Hine as Social Critic places the artist within the context of the
Progressive Era and its associated movements and periodicals, such as the Works Progress Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, the
Chicago School of Social Work, and Rex Tugwell's American Economic Life and the Means of Its Improvement. This intellectual history,
heavily illustrated with HIne's photography, compares his career and concerns with other prominent photographers of the day--Jacob Riis,
Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
University of Illinois
Press, 2003
In this frank and informative autobiography, the veteran investigative journalist Ida M. Tarbell looks back on her nearly fifty-year career. At
the age of eighty-two, one of the original muckrakers writes with her characteristic candor about a life spent defying categories and
challenging complacency. Tarbell was the only woman in her class of forty students at Allegheny College, and upon graduation she began
an internship at The Chautauquan, which was the start of a lifelong immersion in the world of journalism. She further honed her skills
during a three-year stint in Paris, but the breakthrough came in 1894 when she was hired as a full-time writer for McClure's magazine. It
was at McClure's - where, again, she was the only woman on staff - that Tarbell made her name as a determined journalist, one of the
fearless brigade of truth-seekers famously chastised by Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the term 'muckraker' in order to discredit those
who attacked senators in print. Tarbell wrote serialized biographies of Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln, as well as a landmark series of
articles on Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller. In "All in the Day's Work", Tarbell turns her keen eye on herself, recalling the events of her
fascinating life with the same honesty, verve, and scrupulous accuracy she brought to her journalistic work, offering insight along the way
into the people, places, and issues of her time. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
Hill and Wang, 2007
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the
cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized
industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an
entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. Here, in an updated edition which includes a new introduction and a revised
bibliographical essay, is a brilliant, essential work on the origins of America's corporate culture and the formation of the American social
fabric after the Civil War. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Adult
Progressive-Era Politics
Elementary
Ann Bausum's dramatic narrative follows a generation of dedicated journalists who force responsible changes in industry and politics as
America thrives. Muckrakers is the inside story of public-spirited journalism right through its evolution, with profiles of latter-day
practitioners like Woodward and Bernstein and today's Internet bloggers. - Publisher
Progressive-Era Politics
Middle School
University of Illinois
Press, 2007
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this
groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual
rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White
House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign
of nonviolence. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Teachers College
Press, 2002
Presenting a comprehensive look at twentieth-century collaborations between female teachers and the women's movement, this volume
highlights the feminist ideologies, strategies, and rationales pursued by teachers in search of better workplaces. Carter chronicles the
evolution of rights for female teachers, covering such important social and economic topics as suffrage, equal pay for equal work, the right
to marry and take maternity leaves, access to administrative positions, the right to lobby and bargain collectively, and the right to
participate in political and social reform movements outside the workplace.
Women
Adult
Princeton University
Press, 2004
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital
and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine
standard. In this much anticipated book, Dorothy Sue Cobble retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generations of working
women, illuminating the ideas that inspired them and the reforms they secured from employers and the state. This socially and ethnically
diverse movement for change emerged first from union halls and factory floors and spread to the "pink collar" domain of telephone
operators, secretaries, and airline hostesses. From the 1930s to the 1980s, these women pursued answers to problems that are
increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address the growing economic inequalities that confront us. The
Other Women's Movement traces their impact from the 1940s into the feminist movement of the present. - Publisher
Women
Adult
NYU Press, 2001
In Sisters in the Struggle, we hear about the unsung heroes of the civil rights movements such as Ella Baker, who helped found the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who took on segregation in the Democratic party (and won), and
Septima Clark, who created a network of "Citizenship Schools" to teach poor Black men and women to read and write and help them to
register to vote. We learn of Black women's activism in the Black Panther Party where they fought the police, as well as the entrenched male
leadership, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where the behind-the-scenes work of women kept the organization afloat
when it was under siege. It also includes first-person testimonials from the women who made headlines with their courageous resistance to
segregation—Rosa Parks, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Dorothy Height. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Duke University Press
Books, 2007
Kathy Davis tells the story of this remarkable book’s global circulation. Based on interviews with members of the Boston Women’s Health
Book Collective, the group of women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves, as well as responses to the book from readers, and discussions
with translators from Latin America, Egypt, Thailand, China, Eastern Europe, Francophone Africa, and many other countries and regions,
Davis shows why Our Bodies, Ourselves could never have been so influential if it had been just a popular manual on women’s health. It was
precisely the book’s distinctive epistemology, inviting women to use their own experiences as resources for producing situated, critical
knowledge about their bodies and health, that allowed the book to speak to so many women within and outside the United States. Davis
provides a grounded analysis of how feminist knowledge and political practice actually travel, and she shows how the process of
transforming Our Bodies, Ourselves offers a glimpse of a truly transnational feminism, one that joins the acknowledgment of difference and
diversity among women in different locations with critical reflexivity and political empowerment. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Vintage, 2010
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response
to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be
their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, interviews with
dozens of the central figures, and her own personal experience, Evans explores how the political stance of these women was catalyzed and
shaped by their sharp disillusionment at a time when their skills as political activists were newly and highly developed, enabling them to
join forces to support their own cause. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Rutgers University
Press, 2010
No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the “wave” metaphor for capturing the complex history of
women’s rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays
—both original and reprinted—address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women’s movements in the United States from
the early nineteenth century through today. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Manchester
University Press,
2009
Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women’s suffrage movement, this volume offers a unique focus.
It includes studies of the fascinating, but neglected groups that participated in the campaign: the Women’s Franchise League; the Women’s
Freedom League; the Women’s Tax Resistance League and the United Suffragists. This is accompanied by feminist research on the poetry,
fiction and drama that emerged from women’s struggle for the vote. In addition there are reappraisals of two leading figures in the
Pankhursts’ Women’s Social and Political Union, an illuminating analysis of the relationship between suffrage and sexuality, and a
discussion of what happened away from the metropolis, as well as of the little known campaign to extend the vote after 1918. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Harper Perennial,
2004
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to
com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they
have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "White" as they head to work in the morning and
"Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they
encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back. With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a
much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Oxford University
Press, 2008
In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the women's rights movement and change the course of history. In
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement, Sally McMillen reveals, for the first time, the full significance of that
revolutionary convention and the enormous changes it produced. The book covers 50 years of women's activism, from 1840 to 1890,
focusing on four extraordinary figures--Mott, Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony. McMillen tells the stories of their lives, how they
came to take up the cause of women's rights, the astonishing advances they made during their lifetimes, and the far-reaching effects of the
work they did. At the convention they asserted full equality with men, argued for greater legal rights, greater professional and education
opportunities, and the right to vote--ideas considered wildly radical at the time. Indeed, looking back at the convention two years later,
Anthony called it "the grandest and greatest reform of all time." - Publisher
Women
Adult
Sphinx Publishing
Updated Edition,
2007
The Boundaries of Her Body is the definitive history of the cycle of advances and setbacks that characterizes women's rights in America.
Author Debran Rowland covers emotionally charged issues with thoughtful detail, offering insight into the strategies used by politicians
and lobbyists to defeat long-standing law. - Publisher
Women
Adult
University of Illinois
Press, 2010
Going beyond self-identified Washington feminists to include critics, outsiders, occasional supporters, and those supportive of the
movement but not directly affiliated with it, Valk documents interactions between groups working against sexism, racism, and poverty.
Radical Sisters uncovers the fruitful, but often divisive, connections between movements for urban change, welfare rights, reproductive
control, and black liberation, while detailing their impact on the ideas, ideals, and activities embraced by modern feminism. - Publisher
Women
Adult
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010
Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she
developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant
wing of the American suffrage movement. Calling themselves “Silent Sentinels,” she and her followers were the first protestors to picket
the White House. Arrested and jailed, they went on hunger strikes and were force-fed and brutalized. Years before Gandhi’s campaign of
nonviolent resistance, and decades before civil rights demonstrations, Alice Paul practiced peaceful civil disobedience in the pursuit of
equal rights for women. - Publisher
Women
Adult
If You Lived When Women Won Their
Rights
Scholastic, 2008
There was a time that girls and women in the United States could not: wear pants; play sports on a team; ride a bicycle; or go to college.
That all began to change in 1848, when American women (and some men) met in Seneca Falls, NY, at the first convention for women's
rights held anywhere in the world. In the familiar question-and-answer format, this installment in the acclaimed If You Lived... history
series tells the exciting story of how women worked to get equal rights with men, culminating in the 19th amendment to the Constitution
and giving women the right to vote. - Publisher
Women
Elementary
Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B.
Anthony and the Fight for Women's Peachtree Publishers,
Suffrage
2011
All Bessie wants is to go hiking with her father and brothers. But it s 1896 and girls don t get to hike. They can t vote either, which Bessie
discovers when Susan B. Anthony comes to town to help lead the campaign for women s suffrage. Inspired by the great woman, Bessie
becomes involved in the movement and discovers that hiking is only one of the many things that women and girls aren t allowed to do. But
small efforts can result in small changes and maybe even big ones. - Publisher
Women
Elementary
Women
Elementary
Women
Elementary
Women
Elementary
Stunning archival photographs—some never before published—reams of research, and a deft and lively narrative tell this story as if it were
hot off today's headlines. Any reader of this book won't easily forget the sacrifice and struggle of women who rose to champion Susan B.
Anthony's 1876 clarion call: "We ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States be guaranteed to us and
our daughters forever." - Publisher
Women
Middle School
Winter, Jonah
Winthrop,
Elizabeth
Counting on Grace
Labor Rights (Including Child Labor) - Middle School
Burgan, Michael
Friesner, Esther
Peterson,
Margaret
Paterson,
Katherine
Breaker Boys; How a Photograph
Helped End Child Labor
Bread and Roses, Too
Progressive Era Misc. - Adult
Addams, Jane
20 Years at Hull House
Gilfoyle, Timothy A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld W.W. Norton and
J.
of Nineteenth-Century New York
Company, 2006
Gould, Lewis L.
America in the Progressive Era,
1890-1914
Citizen: Jane Addams and the
Knight, Louise W. Struggle for Democracy
McGerr, Michael
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and
Fall of the Progressive Movement in Oxford University
America, 1870-1920
Press, 2005
Standing at Armageddon: A
Grassroots History of the
Painter, Nell Irvin Progressive Era
Reese, William J.
SampsellWillmann, Kate
Tarbell, Ida M.
Trachtenberg,
Alan
Power and the Promise of School
Reform: Grass-Roots Movements
During the Progressive Era
Lewis Hine as Social Critic
All in the Day's Work: AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Incorporation of America:
Culture and Society in the Gilded
Age
Progressive Era Misc. - Elementary
Harness, Chreyl
The Remarkable Rogh-Riding Life of
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of National Geographic
Empire America
Society, 2007
An all-encompassing biography of the little boy who became a Rough Rider and eventually the twenty-sixth president of the United States.
The conversational text, accompanied by pen-and-ink illustrations, makes history fun for any reader. Timeline, Index, Bibliography,
Recommended Reading, Websites. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Progressive Era Misc. - Middle School
Bausum, Ann
Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton
Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped National Geographic
Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Children's Press,
Invent Investigative Journalism
2007
Women's Rights - Adult
Adams, Katherine
H. and Keene,
Alice Paul and the American
Michael L.
Suffrage Campaign
Carter, Patricia
Cobble, Dorothy
Sue
Collier-Thomas,
Bettye and
Franklin, V.P.
Davis, Kathy
Evans, Sara
Hewitt, Nancy A.
Everybody's Paid But the Teacher
The Other Women's Movement:
Workplace Justice and Social Rights
in Modern America (Politics and
Society in Twentieth-Century
America)
Sisters in the Struggle : AfricanAmerican Women in the Civil
Rights-Black Power Movement
The Making of Our Bodies,
Ourselves: How Feminism Travels
across Borders (Next Wave: New
Directions in Women's Studies)
Personal Politics: The Roots of
Women's Liberation in the Civil
Rights Movement & the New Left
No Permanent Wave: Recasting
Histories of U.S. Feminism
Joannou, Maroula The Women's Suffrage Movement:
and Purvis, June New Feminist Perspectives
Jones, Charisse
and ShorterGooden
McMillen, Sally
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black
Women in America
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the
Women's Rights Movement (Pivotal
Moments in American History)
Boundaries of Her Body: The
Troubling History of Women's
Rowland, Debran Rights in America
Valk, Anne M.
Walton, Mary
Radical Sisters: Second-Wave
Feminism and Black Liberation in
Washington, D.C. (Women in
American History)
A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and
the Battle for the Ballot
Women's Rights - Elementary
Kamma, Anne
and Joshua,
Pamela
Murphy, Claire
Rudolf and
Schuett, Stacey
Plourde, Lynn
Margaret Chase Smith: A woman
for President
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth
Stone, Tanya Lee Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
Van Rynback, Iris
& Shea, Pegi
The Taxing Case of the Cows: A
Deitz
True Story about Suffrage
Charlesbridge, 2008
Henry Holt and
Company, 2008
Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2010
Experience the compelling story of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, who decided to run for president in 1964. The author uses a timeline of
key events in history and important information about our nation to make connections to this woman’s passions and accomplishments.
Author’s Notes.National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Lively prose and lighthearted folk-art illustrations portray the life of Stanton from childhood to her presentation of the Declaration of
Rights and Sentiments in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Map, Author’s Note, Sources. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable
Trade Book
This book recounts the little-known story of two sisters whose cows were confiscated during the sisters’ struggle against taxation without
representation. The story offers an illustration of actions against women that fueled the suffrage movement. Bibliography, Author’s Note.
National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Women's Rights - Middle School
Bausum, Ann
With Courage and Cloth: Winning
the Fight for a Woman's Right to
Vote
Gourley,
Catherine
Twenty-First Century
Gibson Girls and Suffragists:
Books, a division of
Perceptions of Women from 1900 to Lerner Publishing
1918
Group, 2007
All five titles in this series examine the portrayal of American women in popular culture. Photographs, quotations, and snippets of social
history highlight the images and issues that influenced women during the twentieth century. Author’s Note, Prologue, Epilogue, Source
Notes, Selected Bibliography, Further Reading and Websites, Index.National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Women
Middle School
Women's Right to Vote
(Cornerstones of Freedom: Second)
Cornerstones of Freedom, Second Series chronicles the American legacy. Each volume conveys a dramatic and defining moment in
American history, from colonial times to the present. While fun to read, the books are also highly factual and support the school
curriculum. In addition, the series effectively enables young people to acquire critical research skills through the use of important research
features. - Publisher
Women
Middle School
Women
Middle School
University of
Neberaska Press,
2012
It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights. This volume, which
considers relations between blacks and browns during the civil rights era, carefully examines the complex and multifaceted realities that
complicate such assumptions—and that revise our view of both the civil rights struggle and black-brown relations in recent history. Unique
in its focus, innovative in its methods, and broad in its approach to various locales and time periods, the book provides key perspectives to
understanding the development of America’s ethnic and sociopolitical landscape. - Publisher
Civil Rights Tension
Adult
Harvard University
Press, 2010
Neil Foley examines the complex interplay among regional, national, and international politics that plagued the efforts of Mexican
Americans and African Americans to find common ground in ending employment discrimination in the defense industries and school
segregation in the war years and beyond. Underlying differences in organizational strength, political affiliation, class position, and level of
assimilation complicated efforts by Mexican and black Americans to forge strategic alliances in their fight for economic and educational
equality. The prospect of interracial cooperation foundered as Mexican American civil rights leaders saw little to gain and much to lose in
joining hands with African Americans. - Publisher
zCivil Rights
Adult
Beacon Press, 2011
At the historic Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Anita Hill spoke out courageously about workplace sexual harassment. Now she
turns to the topic of home. As our country reels from the subprime mortgage meltdown and the resulting devastation of so many families
and communities, Hill takes us inside this “crisis of home” and exposes its deep roots in race and gender inequities, which continue to
imperil every American’s ability to achieve the American Dream. In this period of recovery and its aftermath, what is at stake is the
inclusive democracy the Constitution promises. The achievement of that ideal, Hill argues, depends on each American’s ability to secure a
place that provides access to every opportunity our country offers. Building on the great strides of the women’s and civil rights movements,
Hill presents concrete proposals that encourage us to broaden our thinking about home and to reimagine equality for America’s future. Publisher
zCivil Rights
Adult
NYU Press, 2011
Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking sociopolitical relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates
how a politics of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity. Publisher
zCivil Rights
Adult
Basic Books; Reprint
Edition, 2009
Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American
Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed
presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping
reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life. Publisher
zCivil Rights
Adult
Oxford University
Press, 2012
Wheeler explores the ACLU's prominent role in nearly every major court decision related to sexuality while examining how the ACLU also
promoted its agenda through grassroots activism, political action, and public education. She shows how the ACLU helped to collapse
distinctions between public and private in ways that privileged access to sexual expression over protection from it. Thanks largely to the
organization's work, abortion and birth control are legal, coerced sterilization is rare, sexually explicit material is readily available, and gay
rights are becoming a reality. But this book does not simply applaud the creation of a sex-saturated culture and the arming of citizens with
sexual rights; it shows how hard-won rights for some often impinged upon freedoms held dear by others. - Publisher
Civil Rights - Sexual
Revolution
Adult
Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
A top aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. and one of history's most important civil rights leaders, Andrew Young has witnessed history and made
his own. This book presents Young's thoughts and meditations on such important topics as civil rights and the American Dream - WorldCat
zCivil Rights
Adult
zCivil Rights
Elementary
zCivil Rights
Elementary
zCivil Rights
Elementary
zCivil Rights
Middle School
zCivil Rights
Middle School
zCivil Rights
Middle School
zCivics
Elementary
zCivics
Elementary
Be considerate of other people's feelings, and treat others as you want to be treated. Listen to Frank B. Wize's advice on respecting others.
- Publisher
zCivics
Elementary
Fifty-five well-known actors, writers, athletes, musicians, political figures— including Maya Angelou, Sean Kingston, Rosario Dawson, and
Norman Lear—share their perspectives on civic involvement to encourage 18- to 29- year olds to register and vote. List of Organizations, Q
& A, Timeline, Glossary, Overview of U.S. government. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
zCivics
Middle School
Young people need guidance from caring adults to build strong, positive character traits—but they can also build their own. This book by
the best-selling author of The Kid’s Guide to Social Action invites children and teens to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy,
integrity, tolerance, patience, respect, and more. Quotations and background information set the stage. Dilemmas challenge readers to
think about, discuss, and debate positive traits. Activities invite them to explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their
communities. True stories profile real kids who exemplify positive traits; resources point the way toward character-building books,
organizations, programs, and Web sites. - Publisher
zCivics
Middle School
Landau, Elaine
Woelfle, Gretchen Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer
National Geographic
Children's Press,
2004
Children's Press,
2007
Calkins Creek, an
imporint of Boyds
Mills Press, Inc, 2007
Illustrated with photographs, this story chronicles the life and evolution of America’s first congresswoman. Rankin, who underscored the
importance of organizing, waged a tireless fight for peace, women’s suffrage, and social justice. Timeline, Bibliography, Source Notes,
Index. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights & Discrimination - Adults
Behnken, Brian
Foley, Neil
Hill, Anita
The Struggle in Black and Brown:
African American and Mexican
American Relations during the Civil
Rights Era (Justice and Social
Inquiry)
Quest for Equality: The Failed
Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity
Reimagining Equality: Stories of
Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Race for Citizenship: Black
Orientalism and Asian Uplift from
Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal
Jun, Helen Heran America (Nation of Newcomers)
Keyssar,
Alexander
Wheeler, Leigh
Ann
The Right to Vote: The Contested
History of Democracy in the United
States
How Sex Became a Civil Liberty
Bridging generations : on civil
Young, Andrew
rights, justice and the American
and Sehgal, Kabir Dream
Civil Rights & Discrimination - Elementary
Banks, Sara
Harrell
Kay, Verla
Michelson,
Richard
The Everlasting Now
Peachtree Publishers,
2010
Rough, Tough Charley
Tricycle Press, 2007
As Good as Anybody
Alfred A. Knopf
Books / Random
House Children's
Books, 2008
A child of privilege living through the Depression, “Brother” begins to question the rules of power and race when he meets Champion
Always Lucky, an AfricanAmerican boy his own age, who has been sent to live with his aunt in Brother’s Alabama town. National Council for
the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
With her signature “cryptic rhyme,” the author tells the true story of a stagecoach driver in the Old West—a woman who lived her life as a
man. Timeline & Biographical Information. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Two men walk together, one Jewish and the other Christian, both looking for equality in the world. This book offers a close look at how
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s lives intersected for a common cause.National Council for the Social
Studies – Notable Trade Book
Civil Rights & Discrimination - Middle School
Brande, Robin
Gold, Susan
Dudley
Levine, Ellen
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of
Nature
Loving v. Virginia: Lifting the Ban
against Interracial Marriage
Up Close: Rachel Carson
Knopf, an imprint of
Random House
Children's Books,
2007
Marshall Cavendish
Benchmark, 2008
Viking Children's
Books, 2007
An adolescent girl is shunned by her peers, exiled from her church, and suffers parental disapproval after standing up against an antigay
Christian student group. She navigates through banishment and self-doubt with her science teacher. National Council for the Social
Studies – Notable Trade Book
The struggle to be married is recounted with details on the different Supreme Court interpretations, while deepening our understanding of
the next hurdle in civil rights: same sex marriage. This book is an excellent addition to any classroom. National Council for the Social
Studies – Notable Trade Book
In 1961, Rachel Carson published The Silent Spring, raising public consciousness about the dangers of toxic pesticides and almost singlehandedly bringing about an environmental revolution. Foreword, Source Notes, Bibliography, Index. National Council for the Social Studies –
Notable Trade Book
Introduction to Civic Rights - Elementary
Driscoll, Laura
Jackson, Ellen
Loewen, Nancy
Real Heroes Don’t Wear Capes
The Cupcake Thief
Treat Me Right!: Kids Talk About
Respect
Kane Press, 2007
Kane Press, 2007
Picture Window
Books, 2006
With no special powers, no secret identity, and no cape, can someone be a real hero? Ethan thinks so and sets out to prove it! - Polisher
When one student accuses another of stealing his cupcake, the teacher sets the matter for Student Court. This book is filled with examples
and definitions that will make your students want to have their own student court to resolve disputes. Publisher’s Note, Definitions, Making
Connections. National Council for the Social Studies – Notable Trade Book
Introduction to Civic Rights - Middle School
Ferrera, America
Declare Yourself: Speak. Commect.
Act. Vote. More Than 50 Celebrated Green-willow Books,
Americans Tell You Why
2008
What Do You Stand For? For Teens:
Lewis, Barbara A. A Guide to Building Character
Free Spirit
Publishing, 2005