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Social Justice Books: Women's History Month

SocialJusticeBooks.org is a project of Teaching for Change, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world. They created a list of children's books for Women's History Month. This is a list of the titles we have in MARINet. For the complete list please go to: https://socialjusticebooks.org/womens-history-month-book-every-day/

25 items

  • Voice of Freedom

    Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

    Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
    Book, 2015Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015 — J B Hamer, F by Weatherford
  • Book, 2009New York : Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009 — J Bio Colvin
  • Separate Is Never Equal

    Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

    Tonatiuh, Duncan
    This is also available as an eBook or downloadable audio book in our OverDrive collection.
    Book, 2014New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014 — J 379.2 Tonatiuh
  • What Do You Do With a Voice Like That?

    the Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan /

    Barton, Chris,
    Book, 2018New York : Beach Lane Books, 2018 — J Bio JORDAN
  • This is also available as an eBook in our Overdrive collection.
    Book, 2014Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, [2014] — J Bio FREEMAN
  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

    My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

    Lowery, Lynda Blackmon, 1950-
    This is also available as an eBook or a downloadable audio in our OverDrive collection.
    Book, 2015New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015 — Teen 323.119 Lowery
  • This is also available as an eBook in our OverDrive collection.
    Book, 2015San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2015 — J 920.72 Schatz
  • Passenger on the Pearl

    the True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight From Slavery

    Conkling, Winifred
    Book, 2015Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2015 — J Bio EDMONSON
  • Fannie Never Flinched

    One Woman's Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights

    Farrell, Mary Cronk,
    Book, 2016New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016 — J Bio Sellins
  • This Promise of Change

    One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality

    Boyce, Jo Ann Allen,
    This is also available as an eBook in our OverDrive collection.
    Book, 2019New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019 — J Bio BOYCE
  • This is also available as an eBook in our Overdrive collection.
    Book, 2005New York : Henry Holt, [2005] — J Bio PARKS
  • Pies From Nowhere

    How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Romito, Dee,
    Book, 2018New York, Ny : little bee books, 2018 — J Bio GILMORE
  • Book, 2008New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2008 — J B Wells, I by Myers
  • Farewell to Manzanar

    a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

    Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
    Book, 2002Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2002] — Teen 940.5472 Houston
  • The Girl From the Tar Paper School

    Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

    Kanefield, Teri, 1960-
    Book, 2014New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014 — J 323.092 Kanefield
  • Midnight Teacher

    Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School

    Halfmann, Janet,
    Book, 2018New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., 2018 — J B GRANDERSON
  • Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

    George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away

    Dunbar, Erica Armstrong,
    This is also available as a downloadable audio book in our OverDrive collection.
    Book, 2019New York : Aladdin, 2019 — J Bio JUDGE
  • The Surrender Tree

    Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

    Engle, Margarita
    Book, 2008New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2008 — Teen 811 Engle
  • This is also available as an audio book.
    Book, 2018New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018 — J Fiction Shabazz