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Civil Rights Reading List: USA

USA - Easier Reads

To Kill a Mockingbird: Graphic Novel by Harper Lee
Call Number: GN
ISBN: 9781785151552
Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
Call Number: F JACK
ISBN: 9781328753632
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood
Call Number: F SCAT
ISBN: 9780545331814
Publication Date: 2014-12-30
March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN LEWI
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
March: Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN LEWI
ISBN: 9781603094009
Publication Date: 2015-01-20
March: Book Three by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN LEWI
ISBN: 9781603094023
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
Call Number: F WILE
ISBN: 9780545106061
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Revolution by Deborah Wiles
Call Number: F WILE
ISBN: 9780545106085
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Call Number: F TALL
ISBN: 9780373212040
Publication Date: 2016-01-26
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: F MAGO
ISBN: 9781416978039
Publication Date: 2010-04-06
Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon
Call Number: F MAGO
ISBN: 9781442422315
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Call Number: F CURT
ISBN: 9780440414124
Publication Date: 1997-09-08
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Call Number: F KIDD
ISBN: 0747266832
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Call Number: F STOC
ISBN: 9781905490431
Night on Fire by Ronald Kidd
Call Number: F KIDD
ISBN: 9780807570265
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Call Number: F LEVI
ISBN: 9780142424353
Publication Date: 2013-01-10
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Call Number: F BLAC
ISBN: 9780141378640
Noughts & Crosses: the graphic novel adaptation by Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 9780857531957
Piecing me together by Watson, Renee
Call Number: F WATS
ISBN: 9781408897348
A Sky Full of Stars by Linda Williams Jackson
Call Number: F JACK
ISBN: 9780544800656
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow
Call Number: F MORR
ISBN: 9781250316035
Publication Date: 2021-06-01

USA - More Challenging Reads

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: F THOM
ISBN: 9781406372151
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Call Number: F LEE
ISBN: 9780099466734
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Call Number: F LEE
ISBN: 9780062409850
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Call Number: SF LEVY
ISBN: 9780755307517
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
ISBN: 9780061148989
Publication Date: 2009-01-27
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: F WHIT
ISBN: 9780708898376
Loving vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell; Shadra Strickland (Illustrator)
Call Number: F POWE
ISBN: 9781452125909
Publication Date: 2017-01-31
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: SF COLS
ISBN: 9780708899434
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Call Number: SF MATH
ISBN: 9780091944193
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: F STON
ISBN: 9781101939529
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Call Number: F STON
ISBN: 9781471186936
Publication Date: 2020
The Black Kids
Call Number: SF HAMM
ISBN: 9781471188190
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Call Number: SF CLAR
ISBN: 9781250767028
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden
Call Number: F BOLD
ISBN: 9781681198040
Publication Date: 2020-01-14
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Call Number: SF BEAT
ISBN: 9781786070173
Such a fun age by Kiley Reid
Call Number: F REID
ISBN: 9781526612151
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Call Number: F BENN
ISBN: 9780349701455
Your house will pay by Steph Cha
Call Number: F CHA
ISBN: 9780571348213
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Call Number: F McBR
ISBN: 9780857527585
When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
Call Number: F HARR
ISBN: 9780062945891
Publication Date: 2021-01-05

USA - Biographies and Non-Fiction

On the Other Side of Freedom by Deray McKesson
Call Number: 920 MCKE
ISBN: 9781786076519
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell
Call Number: 973.92 MIT
ISBN: 9781338115895
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Call Number: 364.134 TYS
ISBN: 9781476714851
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: 920 WOOD
ISBN: 9780399252518
Publication Date: 2014-08-28
Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King Jr by Martin Luther King Jnr
Call Number: 973.92 KIN
ISBN: 0733622070
Separate by Steve Luxenberg
ISBN: 9780393357691
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
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: 2012-07-20
Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks; Jim Haskins
Call Number: 973.92 PAR
ISBN: 9780141301204
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Boycotts, Marches, and Strikes by Barbara Diggs
ISBN: 9781619309197
Publication Date: 2020-10-15
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