GCPL staff has created a list of books and other resources to help educate and start important conversations about the history of race, civil unrest and social justice. Click through the tabs below to view and access links.
Civil Rights and Racism tab in Bibliocommons:
Bibliocommons Book Lists For Adults
Ebooks
For Adults:
CLICK HERE to view adult nonfiction books currently available for immediate checkout (no holds)
CLICK HERE to view all ages books on voting
Read about past marches in the Civil Rights movement: Bibliocommons Book Lists
CLICK HERE to view adult nonfiction books currently available for immediate checkout (no holds)
CLICK HERE to view all ages books on voting
Read about past marches in the Civil Rights movement: Bibliocommons Book Lists
For Teens:
CLICK HERE to view teen fiction and nonfiction books currently available for immediate checkout (no holds)
CLICK HERE to view all ages books on voting
CLICK HERE to view teen fiction and nonfiction books currently available for immediate checkout (no holds)
CLICK HERE to view all ages books on voting
- Rise up! The art of protest
- Rad American history A-Z: movements & moments that demonstrate the power of the people
- Raise your voice: 12 protests that shaped America
- Make trouble: standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead
- Things that make white people uncomfortable: adapted for young adults
- Enough is enough: how students can join the fight for gun safety
- Glimmer of hope: how tragedy sparked a movement
- Girls resist!: a guide to activism, leadership, and starting a revolution
- The march against fear: the last great walk of the Civil Rights movement…
- This book is anti-racist
- Stamped: racism, antiracism, and you
- Investigating institutional racism
- We are not yet equal: understanding our racial divide
For Kids:
CLICK HERE to view children's books currently available for immediate checkout (no holds)
CLICK HERE to view all ages books on voting
CLICK HERE to view children's books currently available for immediate checkout (no holds)
CLICK HERE to view all ages books on voting
- Courageous world changers
- How to make a better world: for every kid who wants to make a difference
- Say something! (Reynolds)
- We are the change: words of inspiration from Civil Rights leaders
- Kid activists: true tales of childhood from champions of change
- I’m an activist
- Marley Dias gets it done: and so can you!
- The story of Civil Rights
- Never too young! 50 unstoppable kids who made a difference
- We rise, we resist, we raise our voices
- Start now! You can make a difference
- Undefeated
- Enough! 20 protestors who changed America
- The youngest marcher
- Dealing with…racism
- The power book: what is it, who has it, and why
- Racism and intolerance
- Not my idea: a book about whiteness
- Something happened in our town: a child’s story about racial injustice
Databases/Other Resources:
- ABC-CLIO: African American Experience Log in with library card number and PIN
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights Log in with library card number and PIN
- Gale eBooks: Black History Month Log in with library card number and PIN
- Muse in Focus: Confronting Structural Racism (made freely available outside ProjectMuse) https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse-in-focus/confronting-structural-racism/
- Just Mercy Film (temporarily available for free): https://www.justmercyfilm.com/
- Oxford African American Studies Center Log in with library card number and PIN
- New York Times Click under Off-Site access, and enter your library card number and PIN
- GALILEO Log in with Library card number and PIN to visit resources on GALILEO, including Ebook Central (Proquest) and Ebooks on EBSCOHost to search for topics such as activism, black lives matter, civil disobedience, and many other subjects.