Charleston Strong: from Tragedy to Healing

Charleston Strong: From Tragedy to Healing

An Open-Source Bibliography Created in the Wake of the Charleston Shooting

A Project of the South Carolina Association of School Librarians (SCASL)

Elementary

Bandy, Michael S., and Eric Stein. Grandaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2015. Print.

Barasch, Lynne.Knockin’ On Wood: Starring Peg Leg Bates.New York: Lee & Low Books, 2004. Print.

Bass, Hester, and E.B. Lewis. Seed of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2015. Print.

Birtha, Becky. Grandmama's Pride.Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, 2005. Print.

Haskins, James. Delivering Justice : W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2005. Print.

Haskins, James. John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Lee & Low Books, 2006. Print.

Hill, Laban Carrick. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010. Print.

Hoffman, Mary. Amazing Grace. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991. Print.

Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2003. Print.

Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Print.

Johnson, Angela. A Sweet Smell of Roses. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Print.

Kittinger, Jo S. Rosa’s Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights. Honesdale, PA. Calkins Creek. 2010. Print.

Levine, Ellen. Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad. New York: Scholastic Press, 2007. Print.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America. New York: Disney Hyperion, 2012. Print.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down.New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010. Print.

Polacco, Patricia. Pink & Say. New York: Philomel, 1994. Print.

Rappaport, Doreen. Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001. Print.

Rappaport, Doreen. Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement.Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2006. Print.

Scattergood, Augusta. Glory Be.New York: Scholastic, 2012. Print.

Shange, Ntozake. Ellington Was Not a Street. New York: Simon & Schuster,2005. Print.

Smalls, Irene. Don’t Say Ain’t. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2003. Print.

Weatherford, Carol Boston. Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2004. Print.

Wiles, Deborah. Freedom Summer. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. Print.

Woodson, Jacqueline. The Other Side. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2001. Print.

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. Freedom’s Wings: Corey’s Underground Railroad Diary.New York: Scholastic Books, 2001. Print.

Elementary/Middle

Burg, Shana. A Thousand Never Evers. New York: Delacorte, 2008. Print.

Cheng, Andrea. Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet. New York. Lee & Low Books. 2012. Print.

Draper, Sharon. Stella by Starlight. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015. Print.

Flake, Sharon.The Unstoppable Octobia May. New York: Scholastic Press, 2015. Print.

Halfmann, Janet. Seven Miles to Freedom: the Robert Smalls Story. New York: Lee and Low Books, 2008. Print.

Price, Sean. When Will I Get In? Segregation and Civil Rights.Chicago: Raintree, 2007. Print.

Lewis, J. Patrick. When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2013. Print.

Middle

Allen, Crystal. The Laura Line.New York: Balzer & Bray, 2013. Print.

Brimner, Larry Dane. We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin.Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek, 2007. Print.

Bausum, Ann. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil

Rights Movement. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006. Print.

Bausum, Ann. Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Hours. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2012. Print.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963.New York: Delacorte Press, 1995. Print.

Draper, Sharon. Fire from the Rock.New York: Penguin Group, 2007. Print.

Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. New York: Clarion Books, 2010. Print.

Freedman, Russell. Because They Marched. The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America. New York: Holiday House, 2014. Print.

Greenberg, David. A Tugging String: A Novel About Growing Up During the Civil Rights Era. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2008. Print.

Kanefield, Teri. The Girl from the Tar Paper School:Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Abrams, 2014. Print.

Mayer, Robert H. When the Children Marched: the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2008. Print.

McKissack, Patricia C., and Fredrick L. McKissack.Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States. New York: Scholastic Press, 2003.

McWhorter, Diane.A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968. New York: Scholastic, 2004. Print.

Morrison, Toni. Remember: The Journey to School Integration.Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Print.

Nelson, Kadir. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans. New York: Balzer & Bray, 2011. Print.

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters. New York: Gulliver Books, 2000. Print.

Rubin, Susan Goldman. Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi.New York: Holiday House, 2014. Print.

Sheinkin, Steve. Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2014. Print.

Supples, Kevin. Speaking Out: The Civil Rights Movement 1950-1964. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2005. Print.

Williams-Garcia. Rita. One Crazy Summer.New York: Amistad, 2010. Print.

Wiles, Deborah. Revolution. New York: Scholastic, 2014. Print.

Wright, Barbara. Crow. New York: Random House Children’s Books, 2012. Print.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2014. Print.

Middle/High

Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. New York: Melanie Kroupa Books,2011. Print.

Haskins, Jim, and Kathleen Benson. John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement.New York: Lee and Low Books, 2007. Print.

Miller, Calvin Craig. No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2005. Print.

Bennett, Cherie, and Jeff Gottesfeld. A Heart Divided.New York: Delacorte, 2004. Print.

Clyburn, James, and Jennifer Revels. Uncommon Courage: The Story of Briggs V. Elliott, South Carolina's Unsung Civil Rights Battle. Spartanburg, SC: Palmetto Conservation Foundation, 2004. Print.

Lewis, John, and Andrew Aydin. March: Book One.Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2013. Print.

Lewis, John, and Andrew Aydin.March: Book Two.Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2014. Print.

Magoon, Kekla. Fire in the Streets. New York: Aladdin, 2012. Print.

Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River.New York: Aladdin, 2009. Print.

Partridge, Elizabeth.Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary.New York: Viking, 2009. Print.

Nelson, Marilyn. How I Discovered Poetry. New York: Dial Books, 2014. Print.

Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till.New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Print.

Poe, Marshall. Turning Points: Little Rock Nine. New York: Aladdin, 2008. Print..

High School

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. Print.

Beals, Melba. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High.New York: Pocket Books, 1994. Print.

Bowers, Rick. Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement.Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2010. Print.

Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. New York: Clarion Books, 2010. Print.

Levinson, Cynthia. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March.Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 2012. Print.

Lewis, J. Patrick & Lyon, George Ella. Voices from the March on Washington. Honesdale, PA. WordSong. 2014. Print.

Moore, Winifred B. Jr., and Orville Vernon Burton, eds.Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina During the Twentieth Century. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009. Print.

Magoon, Kekla. The Rock and the River. New York: Aladdin, 2009. Print.

Nolan, Han. A Summer of Kings.New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2006. Print.

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns.New York: Vintage Books, 2010.

Websites and other Resources

Teaching Tolerance.Southern Poverty Law Center, n.d. Web. 16 October 2015. <

“We Need Diverse Books Booktalking Kit”. School Library Journal.School Library Journal, n.d. Web. 16 October 2015.

National Museum of American History, Behring Center. “Bitter Resistance: Clarendon County, SC.” Smithsonian, n.d. Web.16 October 2015. <

Howard, Anastasia. “Portrait of Civil Rights.”SC Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism., 2004. Web. 16 October 2015.

SCETV.“Teacher’s Guide to IdellaBodie’s SC Women ETV Series.”SC Department of Education and SC Educational Television Commission, 2011.Web. 16 October 2015. <

Four Little Girls.Dir. Spike Lee.Home Box Office, 1997.Film.

“South Carolina African American 2015 History Calendar.”AT&T of South Carolina, 2015.Web. 16 October 2015. <

“Road Trip!Through SC Civil Rights History.”ETV Commission, n.d. Web. 16 October 2015.

Bowen, Mae. “President Lyndon B. Johnson Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” The White House Blog, 2 July 2015. Web. 16 October 2015.

Contributors: Patricia C. Bradley, Pam Cadden, April Dawkins, Susan Dicey, Sharon G. Flake, Karen Gavigan, Diane Geddings, Joyce Hansen, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Leigh Jordan, Thomas Maluck, Lindsay McKay, Karen Perry, Charleston Preston-Briegel, Fran Sanderson, Jennifer Simmons,Martha Taylor, Jennifer Tazerouti, Sarah Moise Young, Sharon Dennis Wyeth