January 2010 RFB&D Librarian's Choice Books
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, we are highlighting new lesson plans on titles that focus on the struggle for civil rights.
There are lesson plans for the juvenile books at www.learningthroughlistening.org. Use our book catalog to order these books.
Juvenile Titles
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GZ815
America behind the color line : dialogues with African Americans (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Gates, Henry Louis. Warner Books c2004. [Grades 9 and up].
HD730
A dream of freedom : the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968 (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
McWhorter, Diane. Scholastic c2004. [Grade 3 and up].
HM167
Free at last : the struggle for civil rights (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Perfection Learning c2006. Grades 6-12.
HK554
Freedom's children : young civil rights activists tell their own stories
(Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Levine, Ellen. Puffin Books 2000, c1993. Grades 5-9.
HJ678
I am Rosa Parks (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Parks, Rosa. Houghton Mifflin 2005, c1997. Houghton Mifflin ed. Grade 4.
RL: 4.
JB651
Let's read about-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Baker, Courtney. Scholastic c2001. Grades K-2.
JC199
Listen children : an anthology of black literature (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Bantam Books 1986, c1982. Bantam Starfire ed. Grade 4 and up.
GQ655
Martin's Big words : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Rappaport, Doreen. Hyperion Books for Children c2001. Grades K-3.
HC757
Mississippi trial, 1955 (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Crowe, Chris. Speak 1955, c2002. Phyllis Fogelman ed. Grade 7 and up.
GR143
A song flung up to heaven (Learning
Through Listening lesson plan)
Angelou, Maya. Random House c2002. 1 st ed. [Grades 9 and up].
Adult/Teen Titles
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FZ759
The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
King, Martin Luther. Intellectual Properties Management in association with
Warner Books c1998.
HA466
Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
Garrow, David J. Perennial Classics 2004, c1986. 1st Perennial Classics
ed.
GT217
Carry me home Birmingham, Alabama : the climactic battle of the civil rights
revolution
McWhorter, Diane. Simon & Schuster 2002, c2001. 1st Touchstone ed.
HD780
The dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation
Hansen, Drew D. Ecco c2003.
HR968
Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice
Arsenault, Raymond. Oxford University Press c2006.
JC155
From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle
for economic justice
Jackson, Thomas. Penn c2007.
HW566
Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last
campaign
Honey, Michael K. W.W. Norton c2007. 1st ed.
MM362
I have a dream : writings and speeches that changed the world
King, Martin Luther. HarperSanFrancisco c1992. 1st ed.
HN366
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Frady, Marshall. Viking/Penguin c2002.
JA923
The civil rights movement in American memory
Romano, Renee. Georgia c2006.
