February is Black History Month, so dust off your library card and check out these titles-- for free--at your local library. These titles are recommended by American Library Association’s Booklist. Reviews I’ve borrowed from Booklist are in quotation marks. The titles are links that will take you to longer Booklist reviews. Enjoy!
Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice. By Phillip Hoose. 2009.
Memoir about a teen who was arrested for her activities in the civil rights movement.
The Rock and the River. By Kekla Magoon. 2009. Gr. 6–10.
Historical fiction set in 1968 Chicago. According to Booklist, this novel “…follows a young teen who is torn between his militant older brother, a Black Panther, and his father, a civil rights leader passionately committed to nonviolence.”
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary. By Elizabeth Partridge. 2009.
This photo essay, accompanied by quotes, illustrates the role children played in the Civil Rights Movement. An excellent companion to a wordier text!
Riot. By Walter Dean Myers. 2009.
“In this dramatic novel told in screenplay format, Myers describes the New York draft riots of 1863 from the viewpoint of 15-year-old Claire, the biracial daughter of a black man and a white Irishwoman.” --Booklist
Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War through Reconstruction. By Linda Barrett Osborne. 2009
Focuses on lives of African Americans from 1800 to 1877.
Liberty or Death: The Surprising Story of Runaway Slaves Who Sided with the British during the American Revolution. By Margaret Whitman Blair. 2010.
“Illustrated with crisp reproductions, this exemplary historical survey of African Americans in the Revolutionary War provides a well-researched account of slaves in Virginia who fled to the British.” --Booklist
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