17 Books About the Civil Rights Movement

Follow the true story of Ruby Bridges and learn why we still celebrate her courage today. 

Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. King, joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell the inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement.

Follow along with two young girls as they find themselves in the middle of a civil rights demonstration, and find out how the fight for equality changed the country forever.

Both a sports tale and a history lesson about the man who broke the color barrier when he started playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and influenced the desegregation of Major League Baseball.

From Dr. Martin Luther King's sister, the definitive tribute to the man, the march, and the speech that changed a nation.

When her grandfather registers to vote while living in segregated Mississippi, an African-American girl begins to understand why he insists that she attend school.

When he was born in 1932, Westley Wallace Law's grandmother prayed that he would be a leader of his people. Westley lived up to that hope by organizing peaceful sit-ins in Savannah, Georgia, and prompting desegregation in that city.

In January of 1963, Sharon Robinson turned 13 at the start of one of the most pivotal years in the history of America. This memoir follows Sharon, daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, as she goes through that incredible year of her life.

An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history.

Poignantly illustrating this important account by a seminal American voice are black-and-white photographs contributed by the Library of Congress, the NAACP, and Rosa Parks, herself.

Coretta Scott King-winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America diary about the civil rights movement.

This is the story of a pivotal event in history as Ruby Bridges saw it unfold around her. 

A stunning reflection in prose and pictures of the last months of Dr. King and how in death he remains a constant source of inspiration.

When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons head south to Birmingham, Alabama... toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.

Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm, loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. 

A Step Into History: The Civil Rights Movement helps kids navigate the complicated cause and effect of the Civil Rights Movement in short but fact-packed chapters.