Quick view Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom by Sue Macy Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. View Details
Quick view What Was the March on Washington? by Kathleen Krull On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the momentous... View Details
Quick view From Slave Ship to Freedom Road by Julius Lester A powerful exploration of what slavery meant for both slaves and slave owners, this book provides not just knowledge of history, but a true understanding of the evils of slavery on a personal level. Full color. View Details
Quick view Created Equal: Women Campaign for the Right to Vote 1840-1920 by Ann Rossi Created Equal begins with the early suffragist movement of the late 19th century, telling of the state of women's rights as they were at the time. The reader will learn about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and the other women of the Seneca Falls... View Details
Quick view Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford After four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil... View Details
Quick view Seeds of Freedom by Hester Bass A little-known chapter in Huntsville, Alabama local history that describes how black and white citizens worked together peacefully to solve a large problem of segregation in the city. Teacher Guide View Details
Quick view We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson Levinson retells the story of how, against the better judgment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., young people led the civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. View Details
Quick view A Dream of Freedom by Diane McWhorter In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown versus the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther... View Details
Quick view The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell In June of 1964, three idealistic young men--one black and two white--were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the South. Their... View Details
Quick view If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights by Anne Kamma In the familiar question-and-answer format, this installment in the acclaimed If You Lived . . . history series tells the exciting story of how women worked to get equal rights with men, culminating in the 19th amendment to the Constitution. Full color. View Details