Books like Ruby Bridges: a Talk with My Teacher

#1

Hate Won’t Win Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It

Mallory McMorrow

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#2

All the Way to the Top How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything

Annette Bay Pimentel

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#3

Finish the Fight The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Veronica Chambers

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#4

How Women Won the Vote Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#5

Emmeline Pankhurst

Lisbeth Kaiser

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#6

Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX

Jen Bryant

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#7

Feminist History for Every Day of the Year

Kate Mosse

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#8

Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World

Susan Hood

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#9

The Story of Harriet Tubman Conductor of the Underground Railroad

Kate McMullan

Themes: Social Activists • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Women

#10

True You A Gender Journey

Gwen Agna

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#11

Fighting for Yes! The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann

Maryann Cocca-Leffler

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#12

Helen Keller

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#13

Splash! Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change

Elisa Boxer

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#14

I Am Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges

Themes: Social Activists • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Juvenile Nonfiction

#15

John Lewis: Making Good Trouble Making Good Trouble

Amanda Jackson Green

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction

#16

What Happened to Belén The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement

Ana Elena Correa

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#17

The Bridges Yuri Built How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements

Kai Naima Williams

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction

#18

As Good as Anybody Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom

Richard Michelson

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction

#19

Climate Action What Happened and What We Can Do

Seymour Simon

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction

#20

Resist 40 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice

Veronica Chambers

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction

#21

Unbound My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Women

#22

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’round My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day

Kathlyn J. Kirkwood

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction

#23

If You’re a Kid Like Gavin

Gavin Grimm

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction

#24

Hard Work, But It’s Worth It The Life of Jimmy Carter

Bethany Hegedus

Themes: Activism & Social Justice • Social Activists • Juvenile Nonfiction