Recommended Children's and Pedagogy Literature: Civil Rights and Service Learning - a podcast by Christy G. Keeler, Ph.D.

I recommend the following books for use when teaching the era of the American Revolution to students in intermediate-level grades:

• Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
• Start Something (Elementary Curriculum)provided by the Tiger Woods Foundation
• Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Insby Weatherford, Carole Boston
• Abby Takes a Stand (Scraps of Time)byMcKissack, Patricia and James, Gordon
• Freedom School, Yes!by Littlesugar, Amy
• Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others (Thrift Edition)by Daley, James
• Let Them Play!by Raven, Margot Theis
• Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.by Rappaport, Doreen
• My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.by Farris, Christine King
• Rosaby Giovanni, Nikki and Collier, Bryan
• The School is Not White!by Rappaport, Doreen and Curtis, James
• The Story Of Ruby Bridgesby Coles, Robert
• . . . If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther Kingby Levine, Ellen
• Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movementby Rappaport, Doreen and Evans, Shane
• Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightlyby Myers, Walter Dean
• A Sweet Smell of Rosesby Johnson, Angela
• I Am Rosa Parksby Parks, Rosa
• The Civil Rights Movement: Revised EditionbyDierenfield, Bruce
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963by Curtis, Christopher Paul
• Our Friend, Martina video by 20th Century Fox
• Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rightsby Haskins, James
• I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.by Meyers, Walter Dean
  

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