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Elementary School Titles
Women’s Rights
- Champions of Change: 25 Women Who Made History (Watkins and Kitterman)
- Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (Harrison)
- She Persisted/She Persisted Around the World (Clinton)
- Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote (Gillibrand)
- Finish The Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought For The Right To Vote (Chambers).
Civil Rights
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Harrison)
- Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History (Harrison)
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Weatherford)
- Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X (Shabazz)
- Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Tonatiuh)
- We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Hudson)
- The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist (Levinson)
Current Issues
- Malala’s Magic Pencil (Malala Yousafzai)
- Sea Prayer (Hosseini)
- Where Are You From? (Kim)
- Lailah’s Lunchbox (Faruqi)
- Last Stop on Market Street (De la Peña)
Middle School Titles
Women’s Rights
- https://www.lapl.org/teens/books/womens-history-month-young-adult-books
- A great list of Women’s Rights books here for both middle and high school.
- Finish The Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought For The Right To Vote (Chambers).
Civil Rights
- Warriors Don’t Cry (Beals)
- Rosa Parks: My Story (Parks)
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 (Curtis)
- Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis)
- Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Chris Crowe)
- We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Hudson)
Current Events
- Be The Change: The Future Is In Your Hands (Moyle)
- Esperanza Rising (Ryan)
High School Titles
Women’s Rights
- https://www.lapl.org/teens/books/womens-history-month-young-adult-books
- A great list of Women’s Rights books here for both middle and high school.
Current Events
- The Hate U Give (Thomas)
- House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
College
Women’s Rights
- Invisible Women (Crialdo-Perez)
Civil Rights
- Just Mercy (Stevenson)
- Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Gates)
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Washington)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (Tatum)
- Lies My Teacher Told Me (Loewen)
Current Events
- The Beast (Nunez)
- How to Be an Anti-Racist
- Biased (Jennifer Eberhardt)
- Between the World and Me (Coates)
Other ideas
https://www.weareteachers.com/womens-history-month-books/ – Collection of Women’s Rights books for Elementary-High school students
https://sherman.library.nova.edu/sites/spotlight/list/civil-rights-movement-books-teens/ – Civil Rights book list for teenagers
https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/civil-rights-teaching/classroom/ – Books on teaching Civil Rights topics, divided into age groups (K-12 and teachers)