Race Matters: Teaching Resources Around Race: Biographies and Memoirs
This LibGuide is a culmination of a library department collegial circle on constructive race conversations. The purpose of this LibGuide is to provide BRMS and CRMS teachers with vetted anti-racism resources. These resources can be used for one's own pers
Race Matters...middle and YA level biographies and memoirs for teaching around race
Memoirs
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) by ISBN: 9781984894038Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Brown Girl Dreaming by ISBN: 9780399252518Publication Date: 2014-08-28
Call Me American (Adapted for Young Adults) by ISBN: 9781984897114Publication Date: 2020-06-16
Courage to Soar by ISBN: 9780310759669Publication Date: 2016-11-15
How Dare the Sun Rise by ISBN: 9780062470140Publication Date: 2017-05-16
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) by ISBN: 9780525580065Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Life in Motion by ISBN: 9781481479790Publication Date: 2016-12-06
March: Book One by ISBN: 1603093001Publication Date: 2013-08-13
Proud (Young Readers Edition) by ISBN: 9780316477000Publication Date: 2018-07-24
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition) by ISBN: 9781250194985Publication Date: 2020-09-29
Biographies
Claudette Colvin by ISBN: 9780312661052Publication Date: 2010-12-21
The Girl from the Tar Paper School by ISBN: 9781419707964Publication Date: 2014-01-07
Hand in Hand by ISBN: 9781423142577Publication Date: 2012-10-23
Hidden Figures by ISBN: 9780062363602Publication Date: 2016-12-06
Infinite Hope by ISBN: 9781534404908Publication Date: 2019-10-15
March Forward, Girl by ISBN: 9781328882127Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Onward by ISBN: 9780792279143Publication Date: 2005-12-27
Troublemaker for Justice by ISBN: 9780872867659Publication Date: 2019-08-06
The Voice That Challenged a Nation by ISBN: 9780618159765Publication Date: 2004-05-25
When Stars Are Scattered by ISBN: 9780525553908Publication Date: 2020-04-14
Picture Book Biographies
Bad News for Outlaws by ISBN: 9780822567646Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Between the Lines by ISBN: 9781481443876Publication Date: 2018-01-23
Malcolm Little by ISBN: 9781442412163Publication Date: 2014-01-07
Nelson Mandela by ISBN: 9780061783746Publication Date: 2013-01-02
Schomburg: the Man Who Built a Library by ISBN: 9781536208979Publication Date: 2019-08-06
Seeds of Change by ISBN: 160060367XPublication Date: 2013-04-01
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb by ISBN: 9780803730892Publication Date: 2020-07-28
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks by ISBN: 9781454930884Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Thurgood by ISBN: 9781524765347Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by ISBN: 9780763665319Publication Date: 2015-08-04
When the Beat Was Born by ISBN: 9781596435407Publication Date: 2013-08-27
