Charleston Strong: From Tragedy to Healing
An Open-Source Bibliography Created in the Wake of the Charleston Shooting
A Project of the South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL)
Elementary
Bandy, Michael S., and Eric Stein. Grandaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box. Cambridge,
MA: Candlewick, 2015. Print.
Barasch, Lynne. Knockin’ On Wood: Starring Peg Leg Bates. New York: Lee & Low Books,
2004. Print.
Bass, Hester, and E.B. Lewis. Seed of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville,
Alabama. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2015. Print.
Birtha, Becky. Grandmama's Pride. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, 2005. Print.
Haskins, James. Delivering Justice : W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights. Cambridge, MA:
Candlewick, 2005. Print.
Haskins, James. John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Lee
& Low Books, 2006. Print.
Hill, Laban Carrick. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave. New York: Little, Brown and Company,
2010. Print.
Hoffman, Mary. Amazing Grace. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991. Print.
Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. New York: Knopf Books for Young
Readers, 2003. Print.
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2000. Print.
Johnson, Angela. A Sweet Smell of Roses. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Print.
Kittinger, Jo S. Rosa’s Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights. Honesdale, PA. Calkins Creek. 2010.
Print.
Levine, Ellen. Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad. New York:
Scholastic Press, 2007. Print.
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. New York:
Disney Hyperion, 2012. Print.
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down. New York: Little,
Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010. Print.
Polacco, Patricia. Pink & Say. New York: Philomel, 1994. Print.
Rappaport, Doreen. Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Hyperion
Books for Children, 2001. Print.
Rappaport, Doreen. Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights
Movement. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2006. Print.
Scattergood, Augusta. Glory Be. New York: Scholastic, 2012. Print.
Shange, Ntozake. Ellington Was Not a Street. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Print.
Smalls, Irene. Don’t Say Ain’t. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2003. Print.
Weatherford, Carol Boston. Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. New York: Dial
Books for Young Readers, 2004. Print.
Wiles, Deborah. Freedom Summer. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Print.
Woodson, Jacqueline. The Other Side. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001. Print.
Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. Freedom’s Wings: Corey’s Underground Railroad Diary. New York:
Scholastic Books, 2001. Print.
Elementary/Middle
Burg, Shana. A Thousand Never Evers. New York: Delacorte, 2008. Print.
Cheng, Andrea. Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet. New York. Lee &
Low Books. 2012. Print.
Draper, Sharon. Stella by Starlight. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Print.
Flake, Sharon. The Unstoppable Octobia May. New York: Scholastic Press, 2015. Print.
Halfmann, Janet. Seven Miles to Freedom: the Robert Smalls Story. New York: Lee and Low
Books, 2008. Print.
Price, Sean. When Will I Get In? Segregation and Civil Rights. Chicago: Raintree, 2007. Print.
Lewis, J. Patrick. When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders. San Francisco:
Chronicle Books, 2013. Print.
Middle
Allen, Crystal. The Laura Line. New York: Balzer & Bray, 2013. Print.
Brimner, Larry Dane. We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek,
2007. Print.
Bausum, Ann. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil
Rights Movement. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006. Print.
Bausum, Ann. Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the
Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Hours. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2012.
Print.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. New York: Delacorte Press,
1995. Print.
Draper, Sharon. Fire from the Rock. New York: Penguin Group, 2007. Print.
Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for
Equal Rights. New York: Clarion Books, 2010. Print.
Freedman, Russell. Because They Marched. The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That
Changed America. New York: Holiday House, 2014. Print.
Greenberg, David. A Tugging String: A Novel About Growing Up During the Civil Rights Era.
New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2008. Print.
Kanefield, Teri. The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the
Civil Rights Movement. New York: Abrams, 2014. Print.
Mayer, Robert H. When the Children Marched: the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2008. Print.
McKissack, Patricia C., and Fredrick L. McKissack. Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the
United States. New York: Scholastic Press, 2003.
McWhorter, Diane. A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968. New
York: Scholastic, 2004. Print.
Morrison, Toni. Remember: The Journey to School Integration. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 2004. Print.
Nelson, Kadir. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. New York: Balzer
& Bray, 2011. Print.
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. New York:
Gulliver Books, 2000. Print.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.
New York: Holiday House, 2014. Print.
Sheinkin, Steve. Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights. New York:
Roaring Brook Press, 2014. Print.
Supples, Kevin. Speaking Out: The Civil Rights Movement 1950-1964. Washington, DC:
National Geographic, 2005. Print.
Williams-Garcia. Rita. One Crazy Summer. New York: Amistad, 2010. Print.
Wiles, Deborah. Revolution. New York: Scholastic, 2014. Print.
Wright, Barbara. Crow. New York: Random House Children’s Books, 2012. Print.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014. Print.
Middle/High
Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. New York: Melanie Kroupa Books,
2011. Print.
Haskins, Jim, and Kathleen Benson. John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights
Movement. New York: Lee and Low Books, 2007. Print.
Miller, Calvin Craig. No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement.
Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2005. Print.
Bennett, Cherie, and Jeff Gottesfeld. A Heart Divided. New York: Delacorte, 2004. Print.
Clyburn, James, and Jennifer Revels. Uncommon Courage: The Story of Briggs V. Elliott, South
Carolina's Unsung Civil Rights Battle. Spartanburg, SC: Palmetto Conservation Foundation,
2004. Print.
Lewis, John, and Andrew Aydin. March: Book One. Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2013.
Print.
Lewis, John, and Andrew Aydin. March: Book Two. Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2014.
Print.
Magoon, Kekla. Fire in the Streets. New York: Aladdin, 2012. Print.
Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River. New York: Aladdin, 2009. Print.
Partridge, Elizabeth. Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow
Weary. New York: Viking, 2009. Print.
Nelson, Marilyn. How I Discovered Poetry. New York: Dial Books, 2014. Print.
Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Print.
Poe, Marshall. Turning Points: Little Rock Nine. New York: Aladdin, 2008. Print..
High School
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American
Terrorist Group. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. Print.
Beals, Melba. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s
Central High. New York: Pocket Books, 1994. Print.
Bowers, Rick. Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the
Civil Rights Movement. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2010. Print.
Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for
Equal Rights. New York: Clarion Books, 2010. Print.
Levinson, Cynthia. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March. Atlanta, GA:
Peachtree Publishers, 2012. Print.
Lewis, J. Patrick & Lyon, George Ella. Voices from the March on Washington. Honesdale, PA.
WordSong. 2014. Print.
Moore, Winifred B. Jr., and Orville Vernon Burton, eds. Toward the Meeting of the Waters:
Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina During the Twentieth Century.
Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009. Print.
Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River. New York: Aladdin, 2009. Print.
Nolan, Han. A Summer of Kings. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2006. Print.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
Websites and other Resources
Teaching Tolerance. Southern Poverty Law Center, n.d. Web. 16 October 2015.
<http://www.tolerance.org/>.
“We Need Diverse Books Booktalking Kit”. School Library Journal. School Library Journal, n.d.
Web. 16 October 2015. <http://www.slj.com/downloads/we-need-diverse-books-booktalkingkit/>.
National Museum of American History, Behring Center. “Bitter Resistance: Clarendon County,
SC.” Smithsonian, n.d. Web. 16 October 2015. <http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/4five/clarendon-county-1.html>.
Howard, Anastasia. “Portrait of Civil Rights.” SC Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism.,
2004. Web. 16 October 2015. <http://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/12029>.
SCETV. “Teacher’s Guide to Idella Bodie’s SC Women ETV Series.” SC Department of
Education and SC Educational Television Commission, 2011. Web. 16 October 2015.
<http://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/13991>.
Four Little Girls. Dir. Spike Lee. Home Box Office, 1997. Film.
“South Carolina African American 2015 History Calendar.” AT&T of South Carolina, 2015. Web.
16 October 2015. <http://scafricanamerican.com/download/>.
“Road Trip! Through SC Civil Rights History.” ETV Commission, n.d. Web. 16 October 2015.
<http://www.knowitall.org/roadtrip/>.
Bowen, Mae. “President Lyndon B. Johnson Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” The White
House Blog, 2 July 2015. Web. 16 October 2015.
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/07/02/day-history-president-lyndon-b-johnson-signedcivil-rights-act-1964>.
Contributors: Patricia C. Bradley, Pam Cadden, April Dawkins, Susan Dicey, Sharon G. Flake,
Karen Gavigan, Diane Geddings, Joyce Hansen, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Leigh Jordan,
Thomas Maluck, Lindsay McKay, Karen Perry, Charleston Preston-Briegel, Fran Sanderson,
Jennifer Simmons, Martha Taylor, Jennifer Tazerouti, Sarah Moise Young, Sharon Dennis
Wyeth