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Civil Rights Reading List: USA

USA - Easier Reads

Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Call Number: F BLAC
ISBN: 9780141378640
Publication Date: 2002
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Call Number: F CURT
ISBN: 9780440414124
Publication Date: 1997
Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
Call Number: F JACK
ISBN: 9781328753632
Publication Date: 2017
A Sky Full of Stars by Linda Williams Jackson
Call Number: F JACK
ISBN: 9780544800656
Publication Date: 2018
This Is My America by Kim Johnson
Call Number: F JOHN
ISBN: 9780593118764
Publication Date: 2020
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones; Gilly Segal
Call Number: F JONE
ISBN: 9781492678892
Publication Date: 2019
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Call Number: F KIDD
ISBN: 0747266832
Publication Date: 2002
Night on Fire by Ronald Kidd
Call Number: F KIDD
ISBN: 9780807570265
Publication Date: 2015
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Call Number: F LEVI
ISBN: 9780142424353
Publication Date: 2013
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: F MAGO
ISBN: 9781416978039
Publication Date: 2010
Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: F MAGO
ISBN: 9781442422315
Publication Date: 2012
Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
Call Number: F MCWI
ISBN: 9780759553873
Publication Date: 2022
A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow
Call Number: F MORR
ISBN: 9781250316035
Publication Date: 2021
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
Call Number: F RODM
ISBN: 9780374386610
Publication Date: 2004
Root Magic by Eden Royce
Call Number: F ROYC
ISBN: 9780062899576
Publication Date: 2021
Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood
Call Number: F SCAT
ISBN: 9780545331814
Publication Date: 2011
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Call Number: F STOC
ISBN: 9781905490431
Publication Date: 2009
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Call Number: F TALL
ISBN: 9780373212040
Publication Date: 2014
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Call Number: F WATS
ISBN: 9781408897348
Publication Date: 2018
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Call Number: F WILE
ISBN: 9780545106061
Publication Date: 2010
Revolution by Deborah Wiles
Call Number: F WILE
ISBN: 9780545106085
Publication Date: 2014
The Murder of Emmett Till by Karlos Hill; Dave Dodson
Call Number: GN 364.134 HIL
ISBN: 9780190216016
Publication Date: 2021
March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN 920 LEWI
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013
March: Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN 920 LEWI
ISBN: 9781603094009
Publication Date: 2015
March: Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN 920 LEWI
ISBN: 9781603094023
Publication Date: 2016
The Black Panther Party by David F. Walker; Marcus Kwame Anderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN 973.92 WAL
ISBN: 9781984857705
Publication Date: 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird: Graphic Novel by Harper Lee
Call Number: GN LEE
ISBN: 9781785151552
Publication Date: 2018

USA - More Challenging Reads

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Call Number: F BENN
ISBN: 9780349701455
Publication Date: 2020
Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden
Call Number: F BOLD
ISBN: 9781681198040
Publication Date: 2020
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Call Number: F CHA
ISBN: 9780571348213
Publication Date: 2019
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: F COLS
ISBN: 9780708899465
Publication Date: 2021
When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
Call Number: F HARR
ISBN: 9780062945891
Publication Date: 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call Number: F LEE
ISBN: 9780099466734
Publication Date: 1974
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Call Number: F LEE
ISBN: 9780062409850
Publication Date: 2015
Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink
Call Number: F PINK
ISBN: 9781250768476
Publication Date: 2021
Loving vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell; Shadra Strickland (Illustrator)
Call Number: F POWE
ISBN: 9781452125909
Publication Date: 2017
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Call Number: F REID
ISBN: 9781526612151
Publication Date: 2020
Mockingbird Summer by Lynda Rutledge
Call Number: F RUTL
ISBN: 9781662504518
Publication Date: 2024
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: F STON
ISBN: 9781101939529
Publication Date: 2017
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: F THOM
ISBN: 9781406372151
Publication Date: 2017
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: F WHIT
ISBN: 9780708898376
Publication Date: 2016
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Call Number: SF BEAT
ISBN: 9781786070173
Publication Date: 2015
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Call Number: SF CLAR
ISBN: 9781250767028
Publication Date: 2020
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Call Number: SF HAMM
ISBN: 9781471188190
Publication Date: 2020
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
Call Number: SF JOHN
ISBN: 9780349130576
Publication Date: 2023
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Call Number: SF MCBR
ISBN: 9780857527585
Publication Date: 2021
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by Jame McBride
Call Number: SF MCBR
ISBN: 9781399620413
Publication Date: 2023
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite
Call Number: SF MOUL
ISBN: 9781335145802
Publication Date: 2021
My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
Call Number: SF SHAR
ISBN: 9780061148989
Publication Date: 2007
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Call Number: SF STRI
ISBN: 9781529339246
Publication Date: 2022

USA - Biographies and Non-Fiction

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Call Number: 364.134 TYS
ISBN: 9781476714851
Publication Date: 2017
And We Rise by Erica Martin
Call Number: 811.6 MAR
ISBN: 9780593352540
Publication Date: 2022
The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E. Joseph
Call Number: 920 JOSE
ISBN: 9781541617865
Publication Date: 2020
On the Other Side of Freedom by Deray McKesson
Call Number: 920 MCKE
ISBN: 9781786076519
Publication Date: 2019
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: 920 WOOD
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014
The 1619 Project: a New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
Call Number: 973.2 ONE
ISBN: 9780753559543
Publication Date: 2021
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: 973.92 BAL
ISBN: 9780140182750
Publication Date: 1963
Boycotts, Marches, and Strikes by Barbara Diggs
Call Number: 973.92 DIG
ISBN: 9781619309197
Publication Date: 2020
Hands on the Freedom Plow by Faith S. Holsaert (Editor); Martha Prescod Norman Noonan (General Editor); Judy Richardson (Editor); Betty Garman Robinson (General Editor); Jean Smith Young (General Editor); Dorothy M. Zellner (Editor)
Call Number: 973.92 HAN
ISBN: 9780252078880
Publication Date: 2012
Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King Jr by Martin Luther King Jnr
Call Number: 973.92 KIN
ISBN: 0733622070
Publication Date: 2007
King by Jonathan Eig
Call Number: 973.92 KIN:EIG
ISBN: 9781471181009
Publication Date: 2023
Separate by Steve Luxenberg
Call Number: 973.92 LUX
ISBN: 9780393357691
Publication Date: 2020
Revolution in Our Time: the Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: 973.92 MAG
ISBN: 9781536214185
Publication Date: 2021
Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin; Joshua Bloom; Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Call Number: 973.92 MAR
ISBN: 9781646140930
Publication Date: 2022
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell
Call Number: 973.92 MIT
ISBN: 9781338115895
Publication Date: 2014
Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks; Jim Haskins
Call Number: 973.92 PAR
ISBN: 9780141301204
Publication Date: 1992