Speak Out, Sit Down, Stand Up, March for What You Believe: Resistance and Civil Disobedience
Using the books on this list, start a conversation about how anyone can take action to make social changes. Throughout the history of the U.S., resistance, protests and civil disobedience here and elsewhere have played an essential role in our democracy and in many of the social reforms that we all take for granted today. Please note the appropriate age range of the books you choose to share with your children.
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Showing 1-48 of 75 book results from the CRL "Speak Out, Sit Down, Stand Up, March for What You Believe: Resistance and Civil Disobedience".
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley
40+ Resources12 Awards
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
40+ Resources11 Awards
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
by Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson, and Tony Medina
35+ Resources7 Awards
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans
30+ Resources6 Awards
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
by Michelle Markel and Melissa Sweet
30+ Resources8 Awards
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
30+ Resources4 Awards
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
30+ Resources11 Awards
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Brian Selznick
25+ Resources7 Awards
Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement
by Sandra Neil Wallace and Bryan Collier
25+ Resources2 Awards
Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words
25+ Resources5 Awards
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
by Jabari Asim and E.B. Lewis
25+ Resources6 Awards
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
by Walter Dean Myers and Floyd Cooper
25+ Resources3 Awards
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
20+ Resources10 Awards
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Stephen Alcorn
20+ Resources4 Awards
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
by Michael S. Bandy, Eric Stein, and James Ransome
20+ Resources2 Awards
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
by Susan E. Goodman and E.B. Lewis
20+ Resources7 Awards
We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
by Debbie Levy and Vanessa Brantley-Newton
20+ Resources2 Awards
Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights
20+ Resources6 Awards
Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
15+ Resources3 Awards
When I Was Eight
by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and Gabrielle Grimard
15+ Resources1 Awards
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness
15+ Resources1 Awards
I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
by Linda Arms White and Nancy Carpenter
15+ Resources3 Awards
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
by Tanya Lee Stone and Rebecca Gibbon
15+ Resources1 Awards
The Ballot Box Battle
15+ Resources1 Awards
Above are books from the CRL "Speak Out, Sit Down, Stand Up, March for What You Believe: Resistance and Civil Disobedience" that are currently on TeachingBooks.
