By Samantha Totman, Senior Circulation Librarian
Monday, January 15, 2024 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. In addition to being a national day of service, this is also a great opportunity to educate ourselves not only about MLK’s life and activism, but also about the civil rights struggles throughout history that have moved our country forward.
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Adult Books
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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The Movement Made Us: a Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr. in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr
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King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
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Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
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Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 by Elisabeth Griffith
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Young and Restless: the Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions by Mattie Kahn
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
March by John Lewis
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice by Jamie K. McCallum
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Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights by Rachel B. Vogelstein and Meighan Stone
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights by Dorothy Wickenden
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Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement by Deborah D. Douglas
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Children’s & Young Adult Books
Fighting for YES!: the Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
When the Schools Shut Down: A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s “Lost Generation” and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Decision by Yolanda Gladden
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Rolling Warrior: the Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
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Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World by Frederick Joseph and Porsche Joseph
We’ve Got a Job: the 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel
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What is the Civil Rights Movement? by Sherri L. Smith; illustrated by Tim Foley
Kid Activists: True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change by Robin Stevenson
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