Adler, David
Belton, Sandra
Bray, Rosemary
Bunting, Eve
Curtis, Christopher P.
Crowe, Chris
Curry, Barbara & Brodie,
James
Dawson, George &
Glaubman, Richard
Delany, Sarah & Delany,
A. Elizabeth
Dingle, Derek
Finkelstein, Norman
Giblin, James Cross (Ed.)
Gray, Libba Moore
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hansen, Joyce
Haskins, James
Haskins, James
Katz, William
Kidd, Sue Monk
Picture Book of Frederick Douglass,
A.
From Miss Ida’s Porch
NF/P
Easy
F/P
Med.
Martin Luther King
Smoky Night
Watson’s Go to Birmingham-1963,
The
Getting Away with Murder
NF/P
F/P
F
Med.
Easy
Difficult
X
NF/
Photos
NF/P
Difficult
X
Life Is So Good
Bio
Difficult
X
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’
100 Years
First in the Field: Baseball Hero
Jackie Robinson
Way Things Never Were, The
Century That Was, The
Dear Willie Rudd
Raisin in the Sun
Women of Hope
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of
the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Rides: Journey for Justice
Black Legacy
Secret Life of Bees
Bio
Difficult
X
Bio
Med.
NF/ Photos
NF
F/P
Drama
Bio/Photos
Bio
Difficult
Difficult
Easy
Difficult
Difficult
Difficult
X
X
PNF/Photos
NF
F
Med.
Difficult
Difficult
X
Sweet Words So Brave
Personal
Experience
Leaders
Level
Title
Setting
Type
Author
Forerunner/
Aftermath
The Civil Rights Movement Matrix (last updated August 2006)
X
Notes
X
X
X
Marian
Anderson
X
L.A. Riots
X
Emmett Till
Med.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Lee, Harper
Levine, Ellen
Livingston, Myra Cohn
To Kill a Mockingbird
Freedom’s Children
Keep on Singing
McKissack, Frederick
Meltzer, Milton
Meltzer, Milton
Miller, William
Black Hoops
Langston Huges
There Comes a Time
Richard Wright and the Library Card
Morrison, Lillian (Comp.)
Myers, Willliam Dean
Nelson, Marilyn
More Spice Than Sugar
Malcolm X
Wreath for Emmett Till, A
Pinkney, Andrea
Pinkney, Andrea
Polakow, Amy
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Let It Shine
Daisy Bates, Civil Rights Crusader
Rappaport, Doreen
Ringgold, Faith
Tillage, Leon
Thomas, Joyce Carol
Martin’s Big Words
My Dream of Martin Luther King
Leon’s Story
Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone
Weatherford, Carole
Remembering the Bridge
F
Bio, NF
Bio
Difficult
Med.
Easy
NF
Bio
NF
Bio/P
Difficult
Difficult
Difficult
Med
Poetry
Bio
Poet/P
Med.
Med.
Diff
Bio/P
Bio
Bio
Med.
Bio
Bio
Bio
Bio
Easy
Easy
Med.
Difficult
Poetry
Med.
Personal
Experience
Leaders
Setting
Level
Title
Forerunner/
Aftermath
Type
Author
Notes
X
X
X
X
X
Marian
Anderson
Basketball
X
X
X
X
X
X
First
recognized
African
American
writer
Women
X
X
Murder and
acquittal that
fueled the CR
Movement
X
X
Diff
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Women
Little Rock
school
desegregation
X
X
X
X
School
Desegregation