Discussing Racism: a Curated Reading list for Elementary School Children
Baseball saved us
by
Ken Mochizuki
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
by
Christopher Paul Curtis
The other side
by
Jacqueline Woodson
We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March
by
Cynthia Levinson
When I was eight
by
Christy Jordan-Fenton
The whispering town
by
Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
by
Duncan Tonatiuh
Let's talk about race
by
Julius Lester
The colors of us
by
Karen Katz
Rosa
by
Nikki Giovanni
Schomburg : the man who built a library
by
Carole Boston Weatherford
Little leaders : bold women in black history
by
Vashti Harrison
Let the children march
by
Monica Clark-Robinson
Unstoppable : how Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team defeated Army
by
Art Coulson
We rise, we resist, we raise our voices
by
Wade Hudson
Not my idea : a book about whiteness
by
Anastasia Higginbotham
Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968
by
Alice Faye Duncan
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
by
Jody Warner
No small potatoes : Junius G. Groves and his kingdom in Kansas
by
Tonya Bolden
Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
by
Walter Dean Myers
Hana's suitcase : the quest to solve a Holocaust mystery
by
Karen Levine
Whoosh! : Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions
by
Chris Barton
Tiny stitches : the life of medical pioneer Vivien Thomas
by
Gwendolyn Hooks
The legendary Miss Lena Horne
by
Carole Boston Weatherford
Malcolm Little : the boy who grew up to become Malcolm X
by
Ilyasah Shabazz
Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
by
Carole Boston Weatherford
I am Jackie Robinson
by
Brad Meltzer
The undefeated
by
Kwame Alexander
Henry's freedom box
by
Ellen Levine
Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
by
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom
by
Carole Boston Weatherford
Child of the civil rights movement
by
Paula Young Shelton
Ruth and the Green Book
by
Calvin A. Ramsey
The Grand Mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust
by
Karen Gray Ruelle
Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down
by
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Sojourner Truth's step-stomp stride
by
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Let it shine : three favorite spirituals
by
Ashley Bryan
Seeds of change : planting a path to peace
by
Jen Cullerton Johnson
I am not a number
by
Jenny Kay Dupuis
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