My students need 32 books describing the Civil Rights Movement, including "Frederick Douglass: Rising Up from Slavery", "Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins" and "The Story of Ruby Bridges".
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Fourth and fifth grade Students with Special Needs require resources to learn about the Civil Rights Movement in order to create change themselves.
I teach fourth and fifth grade students with special needs. They are typically the activists in our school. This year they are learning about the Civil Rights Movement in order to inspire their own change. My students need books and resources depicting the Civil Rights Movement in order to gain an understanding of the struggle by our predecessors.
The students in my classroom need books to fuel their desire to make their own change. These students are in a classroom for students with special needs and therefore can share a common bond while listening to stories and discussing the struggles of others. These resources will be used for students to then choose their own Civil Rights current event that they would like to change themselves.
These students typically lack others who support their dreams and desires to change the world they live in due to their ability levels and economic status. By helping these students achieve their goals for Civil Rights shows them that there are others who care as much as they do and who are willing to support those ideas, just as Martin Luther King Jr. and others once did!
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Pioneer (Time For Kids Biographies Series) Editors Of Time For Kids, Time for Kids Magazine (Editor), With Karen Kellaher
• Barnes and Noble
$3.59
1
$3.59
Rosa Nikki Giovanni, Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories Ellen Levine
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles, George Ford (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.29
1
$6.29
Rosa Parks (History Maker Bios Series) Maryann N. Weidt, Tim Parlin (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$5.35
1
$5.35
Remember: The Journey to School Integration Toni Morrison
• Barnes and Noble
$16.20
1
$16.20
DK Readers: Free at Last, the Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Level 4: Proficient Readers), Vol. 4 Angela Bull
• Barnes and Noble
$3.59
1
$3.59
Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights Mary C. Turck
• Barnes and Noble
$17.05
1
$17.05
The Bill of Rights : Protecting Our Freedom Then and Now Syl Sobel J.D.
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$6.29
1
$6.29
I Have a Dream King, Jr., Foreword by Coretta Scott King
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$6.29
1
$6.29
They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X Jules Archer
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$7.19
1
$7.19
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement Doreen Rappaport, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
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$17.99
1
$17.99
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis Brindell Fradin
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$17.10
1
$17.10
A Thousand Never Evers Shana Burg
• Barnes and Noble
$7.19
1
$7.19
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement Ann Bausum
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$17.05
1
$17.05
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine Eileen Lucas, Mark Anthony (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$6.25
1
$6.25
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me John Stokes, Herman Viola, Lois Wolfe, With Herman J. Viola, With Lois Wolfe
• Barnes and Noble
$14.35
1
$14.35
Free at Last! Stories and Songs of Emancipation Doreen Rappaport, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$17.99
1
$17.99
Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History David K. Fremon
• Barnes and Noble
$21.28
1
$21.28
Goin' Someplace Special Patricia C. McKissack, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
$4.54
1
$4.54
The Story of Coretta Scott King Patricia A. Pingry, Steven Walker (Illustrator)
• Barnes and Noble
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