96 Books in the Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists Category

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Seven Million Steps: The True Story of Dick Gregory’s Run for the Hungry Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers Stories of the Spirit of Justice Unstoppable John: How John Lewis Got His Library Card—And Helped Change History Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story Who Was John Lewis? Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (a Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers) Young, Gifted and Black Too: 52 Black Heroes to Celebrate and Discover She Persisted: Dorothy Height Little Black Lives Matter History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote I Am Ruby Bridges Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change Ruby Bridges Takes Her Seat: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior Because Claudette Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth She Persisted: Coretta Scott King Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: A Black History Book for Kids What Is Black Lives Matter? She Persisted: Ruby Bridges Martin Luther King Jr.: My First Martin Luther King Jr. Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch When Harriet Met Sojourner We Wait For The Sun The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?: A Who Was? Board Book This Is Your Time Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood Claudette Colvin Refuses to Move: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement I Am Strong: A Little Book about Rosa Parks Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM Martin Luther King Jr. Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker Malcolm X: Get to Know the Civil Rights Activist Frederick Douglass: Voice for Justice, Voice for Freedom The ABCs of AOC: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from A to Z I Am Brave: A Little Book about Martin Luther King, Jr. A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon Biddy Mason Speaks Up Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court Before She was Harriet The Wedding Portrait Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist My Night in the Planetarium Preaching to the Chickens Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President Brick by Brick: A Snippet of the Life of Booker T. Washington I am Martin Luther King, Jr. Who Was Sojourner Truth? Heroes of Black History I Am Helen Keller Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank I am Rosa Parks The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Fighter for Justice Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours Coretta Scott Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series) Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom Paul Robeson Ron’s Big Mission Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Only Passing Through Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary