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General History

- Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong. New York: The New Press, 1995.

- Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1993.

- Takaki, Ronald. A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1998.

- Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States 1492-Present. Revised and Updated. New York: Harper Perennial, 1980, 1995.

Special Interest

- Archer, Jules. They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. 1996 (Young Adult)

- Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present. Avon. 1992 (Personal accounts of 25 African Americans)

- Hope Franklin, John. From Slavery to Freedom. Knopf, 1974.

- Hughes, Langston, and Milton Metzer. A Pictorial History of the Negroes in America. New York: Crown, 1963. (children of all ages)

- Taulbert, Clifton L. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Council Oaks Books, 1989.

Civil Rights History

- Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

- Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965. Touchstone Book, 1998.

- Carson, Clayborne, ed. et al. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches and Firsthand Accounts From the Black Freedom Struggle 1854-1990. Penguin Books, 1991.

- Davis, Townsend. Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. 1998.

- Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer with Sarah Flynn. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

- Kasher, Steven. Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68. New York: Abbeville Press. -

- Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.

- Levine, Ellen. Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories. Putnam, 1993. (Gr. 7/up)

- Lewis, John with Michael D'Orso. Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

- King, Casey, Linda Barret Osborne, and Joe Brooks (Illustrator) Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement With the People Who Made It Happen. New York: Knopf, 1997.

- McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. The Civil Rights Movement in America: From 1865 to the Present. Chicago: Children's Press, 1987. (Gr. 7/up)

- Mendelsohn, Jack. The Martyrs: Sixteen Who Gave Their Lives for Racial Justice. New York: Harper, 1966.

- Morris, Aldon D. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: The Free Press, 1984.

- Myers, Walter Dean. Now Is Your Time: The African-American Struggle for Freedom. HarperCollins, 1991.

- Powledge, Fred. We Shall Overcome: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.

- Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977.

- Rochelle, Belinda. Witness to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights. Woodland Park, CO: Lodestar Books, 1993. (Gr. 4/up)

- Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser. Everybody Says Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.

- Vann Woodward, C. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University, 1986.

- Wexler. Sanford. The Civil Rights Movement: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1993.

- Williams, Cecil J. Freedom & Justice: Four Decades of the Civil Rights Struggle as Seen by a Black Photographer of the Deep South. Mercer University Press, 1995.

- Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65. New York: Viking, 1987.

- Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.

Social Action Books for Young People

- Hoose, Philip. It's Our World Too: Stories of Young People Who are Making a Difference. New York: Little Brown and Co., 1993. (Gr. 6/up)

- Lesko, Wendy, No Kidding Around! America's Youngest Activists Are Changing Our World and You Can Too. (Gr. 7/up)

- Lewis, Barbara. Kids with Courage, True stories About People Making A Difference. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 1992. (Gr. 6/up)

- Lewis, Barbara A. The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose-and Turn Creative Thinking Into Positive Action. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 1991. (Gr. 7/up)

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