Recommended Readings for Young Adults

A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., For Students
Introduction by Walter Dean Myers 
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2013.

 

 

Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activitists Tell Their Stories
Levine, Ellen.
Penguin, 2000.

 

 

 

 

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March
Leacock, Elspeth.
Dial Books, 2015.

 

 

 

 

March: Book One
Lewis, John.
Top Shelf Productions, 2013.

 

 

 

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Lewis, John, and D’Orso, Michael.
Simon & Schuster, 2015.

 

 

 

The Radical King (King Legacy)
West, Cornel, ed. 
Boston, MA: Beach Press, 2015.

 

 

 

Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement
Medearis, Angela Shelf. 
Puffin Books, 1999.

 

 

 

Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days
Webb-Christburg, Sheyann.
University of Alabama Press, 1997.

 

 

 

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Hoose, Phillip. 
Square Fish, 2010.

 

 

 

We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
Levinson, Cynthia.
Peachtree Publishers, 2015.

 

 

One Crazy Summer
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Amistad, 2011.