Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo, illustrated by J. Brian Pinkney, Scholastic Press, New York, NY, 1993A biography of Martin Luther King for young readers.
(Martin Luther King Day is celebrated each January on a Monday. He was born on January 15, 1929)
Besides the books in this list the Estabrook library has a number of other biograpies of African American civil rights activists, including Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Thurgood Marshall, and W. E. DuBois.
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo, illustrated by J. Brian Pinkney, Scholastic Press, New York, NY, 1993
A biography of Martin Luther King for young readers.
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King ,Jr. by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier, Hyperion Books for Children, New York, NY, 2001
A Caldecott Honor Book, and New York Times Book Review's Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2001 this big book emphasizes narrative and quotations over biographic detail.
Martin Luther King Day by Linda Lowery, illustrated by Hetty Mitchell, Carolrhoda Books, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1987
A simple account of the life of Martin Luther King and the holiday on his birthday.
An Album of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jeanne A. Rowe, Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, NY, 1970
Another biography of Dr. King, for older readers, with more details about the civil rights movement and many photographs.
The Civil Rights Movement in America by Emily Landau, Children's Press, A Division of Scholastic Inc., New York, NY, 2003
A history of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 through 1968 with photographs and references.
Great African Americans in Civil Rights by Pat Rediger & Karen Dudley, Crabtree Publishing Company, New York, 1996
A collection of short profiles of 13 notable African American leaders of the civil rights movement, including Marian Edelman, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, and Malcolm X as well as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: Challenging School Segregation in the Supreme Court by Jake Miller, PowerKids Press, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., New York, NY, 2004
A history of the lawsuit that utimately overturned the "separate but equal" policy and made school segregation illegal in the United states.
Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, illistrated by Kadir Nelson, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, New York, NY, 2004
Poet Ntozake Shange's poem Mood Indigo, which forms the text of this beautiful book, recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of notable African Americans who gathered there.
The Wishing Chair by Rick Dupré, Carolrhoda Books, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1993
Eldon comes to know the true power of the wishing chair at Granny Thelma's, in which he likes to lie upside down, as he listens to her stories about the civil rights workers whose pictures hang above the chair.
Children of the Civil Rights Era by Catherine A. Welch,, Carolrhoda Books, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 2001
A history, with many photographs, of the young people who marched, protested, were arrested, and risked their lives in attempts to end racial discrimination in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford, paintings by Jerome Lagarrigue, Dial Books For Young Readers, New York, NY, 2005
A portrait of the 1960 civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro NC, as it might have been seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn, Gulliver Books, Harcourt, Inc., San Diego, CA, 2000
The lives of 10 black women, from Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) to Rosa Parks (1913-2005), who have battled for civil rights.
When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan, pictures by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, New York, NY, 2002
A biography of Marian Anderson, who was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera after many struggles due to segregation.
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