LibGuides: Race, Racism, and Resistance: Elementary Teaching Resources Around Race: Non-Fiction

Historical Events

This list includes elementary nonfiction titles about specific historical events related to race in the United States.

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Faye Duncan; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781629797182
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419710544
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Artist)
ISBN: 0316070165
Publication Date: 2010-02-03
This Promise of Change by Jo Ann Allen Boyce; Debbie Levy
ISBN: 9781681198521
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Ride to Remember by Sharon Langley; Amy Nathan; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419736858
Publication Date: 2020-01-07
The First Step by Susan E. Goodman; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780802737397
Publication Date: 2016-01-05
Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0061730742
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
Seeds of Freedom by Hester Bass; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763669195
Publication Date: 2015-01-27

This list includes elementary nonfiction titles about social justice movements and activism.

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (Editor); Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780525580423
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
We March by Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596435391
Publication Date: 2012-01-03
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0375843140
Publication Date: 2009-12-22
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780544704527
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
What Can a Citizen Do? (Kids Story Books, Cute Children's Books, Kids Picture Books, Citizenship Books for Kids) by Dave Eggers; Shawn Harris (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781452173139
Publication Date: 2018-09-11
The Teachers March! by Sandra Neil Wallace; Rich Wallace; Charly Palmer (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781629794525
Publication Date: 2020-09-29
What Was the March on Washington? by Kathleen Krull; Who HQ; Tim Tomkinson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780448462875
Publication Date: 2013-02-07
Be a King by Carole Boston Weatherford; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780802723680
Publication Date: 2018-01-02

This list includes elementary nonfiction titles about race awareness.

Let's Talk about Race by Julius Lester; Karen Barbour (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780064462266
Publication Date: 2008-12-23
All the Colors We Are/Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel by Katie Kissinger
ISBN: 9781605540795
Publication Date: 2014-02-11

This list includes elementary nonfiction titles about systemic racism in American society, government, and institutions.