Teaching About the Civil Rights Movement: Books for the Classroom

This is a sample of the vast selection of titles available on the Civil Rights Movement. There are many more books and resources on related social movements and the long history of struggles for civil rights in the U.S. can be found at the Zinn Education Project and the Putting the Movement Into Civil Rights Teaching sites.

Early Elementary - Fiction

There are additional book recommendations ideal for high school students in the Teaching About the Civil Rights Movement Background Reading and Biographies sections.