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Books
non-fiction
Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farm Workers Tell Their
Stories
by Atkin, Beth
published by Little Brown, 1993
Them and Us: A History of Intolerance in America
by Carnes, Jim
published by Oxford University Press, 1996
Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children
by Colman, Penny
published by Millbrook Press, 1994
Strike: The Bitter Struggle of American Workers from Colonial Times to the
Present
by Colman, Penny
published by Millbrook Press, 1995
The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World
by Finkelstein, Norman
published by Beech Tree Books, 1989
Indian Chiefs
by Freedman, Russell
published by Holiday House, 1987
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine against Child Labor
by Freedman, Russell
published by Clarion, 1994
From Colonies to Country
by Hakim, Joy
published by Oxford University Press, 1993
The Journey
by Hamanaka, Sheila
published by Orchard Books, 1995
(A story of Japanese internment)
Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
by Meltzer, Milton
published by Harper Collins, 1991
Women of the Wild West: Biographies from Many Cultures
by Pelz, Ruth
published by Open Hand Publishing, 1994
American Women: Their Lives
in Their Words
by Rappaport, Doreen, ed
published by Crowell, 1990
The Day the Women Got the Vote: A Photo History of the Women's Rights
Movement
by Sullivan, George
published by Scholastic, 1995
A Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee
by Wood, Ted
published by Walker, 1992
A Multicultural Portrait of the American Revolution
by Zell, Fran published by Benchmark, 1996
Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen
by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne
published by Knopf, 1997
(Winner of the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award)
The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells
by Ida B. Wells, Miriam Decosta-Willis (Editor)
published by Beacon Press, 1996
Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B, Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography), by Angela Shelf Medearis
published by Lodestar Books, 1997
Dear Dr. King: Today's Children Write to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Jan Colbert (editor), Ann McMillan Harms (editor), Ernest C. Withers, Roy Cajero (photographer)
published by Disney, 1998
The Farmworkers' Friend: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by David R. Collins
published by Carolrhoda Books, 1996
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little
Rock's Central High
by Melba Pattillo Beals and Julie Rubenstein, Editor
Pocket Books, 1995
White is a State of Mind
by Melba Pattillo Beals
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons 1998
Books
fiction
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
by Curtis, Christopher Paul
published by Delacorte, 1995
(How the civil rights struggle affects one family)
Morning Girl
by Dorris, Michael
published by Hyperion
(A Taino brother and sister in pre-Columbus America)
Letters from Rifka
by Hesse, Karen
published by Puffin, 1993
(A Jewish girl flees czarist Russia in early 1900s)
The Night Journey
by Lasky, Kathryn
published by Viking, 1986
(Escaping the Russian pogroms for America in 1900)
The Store That Mama Built
by Lehrman, Robert
published by Macmillan, 1992
(Jewish and African Americans working together in early 1900s)
The Golem and the Dragon Girl
by Levin, Sonia
published by Fawcett, 1994
(Friendship between a Jewish boy and Chinese girl)
Alan and Naomi
by Levoy, Myron
published by Harper, 1977
(Story of a Jewish refugee from WW II who comes to America)
Pink and Say
by Polacco, Patricia
published by Philomel, 1994
(Story of a 2 soldiers, black and white, who help each other during the Civil
War, told in a picture book format)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Taylor, Mildred
published by Bantam, 1992
(African American family struggles to keep their land in 1930s)
Videos
Eyes on the Prize
produced by Blackside, Inc.
1987
American Experience: One Woman, One Vote
1995
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