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Choosing To Participate: Facing History and Ourselves Bibliography

Rage Is Not A One Day Thing:
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement


TEEN/ADULT

We Want Freedom cover artAbu-Jamal, Mumia.
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party.
Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, c2004.
(B Ab93a3)


Anderson, Ho Che.
King.
Seattle: Fantagraphic Books, c1993-
(TEEN B King)

Beals, Melba.
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High.
New York: Pocket Books, c1994.
(B B368a)

Boycott.
New York: HBO Home Video, c2001
(VIDEO F BOYC)

Crowe, Chris.
Mississippi Trial, 1955.
New York: Dial Books, c2002.
(TEEN F Crow)

Lost Prophet cover artD’Emilio, John.
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.
New York: Free Press, c2003
(B R9285d)


Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader:Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts From the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1991.
(325.26 Ey31)

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years.
(VIDEO 325.26 EY)

Greenwood Encyclopedia cover art
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Twenty-First Century.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003.
(323.1196 G856)

Haskins, James.
The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot: A Photo History of the Civil Rights Movement.
New York: Scholastic, c1992.
(B K584ha)

Hughes Wright, Roberta.
The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Southfield, Mich.: Charro Press, c1991
(325.26 W9353b)

King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
(325.26 K585s)

Mills, Kay.
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Dutton, c1993.
(325.26 M626t)

Freedom Daughters cover artOlson, Lynne.
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970.
New York: Scribner, c2001
(323.0922 OL8f)


Parks, Rosa.
Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation.
(B P237a)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott cover artRobinson, Jo Ann Gibson.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson.
(325.26 R563m)



My Soul Looks Back in Wonder cover artWilliams, Juan.
My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience. New York: AARP/Sterling, c2004.
(323.173 W6736m)




CHILDERN'S

Coles, Robert.
The Story of Ruby Bridges.
New York: Scholastic, c1995.
(jB Brid)


The Watsons Go to Birmingham cover artCurtis, Christopher Paul.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1995.
(jF Curt)


Dear Dr. King: Letters From Today’s Children to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, c1998.
(j323.092 Dear)


James Meredith and School Desegregation's cover artElish, Dan.
James Meredith and School Desegregation.
Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, c1994.
(j323.1196 ELis)



Haskins, James.
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement.
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, c1997.
(jB Rust)

Haskins, James
The Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice.
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, c1995.
(j323.1196 Hask)

King, Casey.
Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made it Happen.
New York: A.A. Knopf, c1997.
(j973.0496 King)

Levine, Ellen.
Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories.
New York: Putnam, c1993.
(j973.0496 Levi)

Levine, Ellen.
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King.
New York: Scholastic, 1994, c1990.
(j323.0973 Levi)


Freedom School, Yes! cover artLittlesugar, Amy.
Freedom School, Yes!.
New York: Philomel Books, c2001.
(jF Litt)



Goin' Someplace Special cover artMcKissack, Patricia.
Goin’ Someplace Special.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2001.
(jPS McKi)



A Dream of Freedom cover artMcWhorter, Diane.
A Dream of Freedom.
S.l. : Scholastic Inc 2004.
(j976.1)



There Comes a Time a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights cover artMeltzer, Milton.
There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights.
New York: Random House, c2001.
(j973.0496 MeLt)


Morrison, Toni.
Remember: The Journey to School Integration.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
(j379.263 Morr)

Myers, Walter Dean.
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary.
New York: Scholastic, c1993.
(jB X)

O'Neill, Laurie.
Little Rock: The Desegregation of Central High.
Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, c1994.
(j373.7677 Onei)

Greenfield, Eloise.
Rosa Parks.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, [1995], c1973.
(jB Park)

Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters.
San Diego: Harcourt, c2000.
(j323.0923 Pink)


Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader Vote cover artPolakow, Amy.
Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader.
North Haven, Conn. : Linnet Books, 2003.
(jB Bate)



Martin's Big Words cover artRappaport, Doreen.
Martin’s Big Words.
New York: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2001.
(jB King)



Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues cover artRobinet, Harriette.
Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young
Readers, c2000.
(jF Robi)


Rochelle, Belinda.
Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights.
New York: Lodestar Books, c1993.
(j323.1196 Roch)

Siegel, Beatrice.
The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
New York: Four Winds Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992
(j325.26 Sieg)

Stand Up for Your Rights.
Chicago, Ill. : World Book, c1998.
(j323.4 Stan)

Stein, R. Conrad.
The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Chicago: Childrens Press, c1986.
(j325.26 St)


Leon's Story cover artTillage, Leon.
Leon’s Story.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, c1997.
(jB TiLL)



Home Life in Grandma's Day cover artWeber, Valerie.
Home Life in Grandma’s Day.
Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, c1999.
(j976.354 Webe)


Wiles, Debbie.
Freedom Summer.
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2001.
(jPS WiLe)


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