Sydney+Cobourn


 * Bibliography ECD 418 **
 * Sydney Cobourn **
 * Civil Rights Movement **
 * __ Fiction __**


 * Birtha, Becky, __Grandmama’s Pride__, 2005, 30 pages, Scottsdale library **

Grandmama’s Pride is an inspiring story about a family’s dignity and strength based on real life events and memories of the 1950s. The book takes pace in 1956, a six year old names Sarah Marie, her mother, and her sister travel down south by bus to visit Grandmama. The two girls and the mother sit in the back of the bus. The mother tells her girls its more comfortable in the back. They spend the summer with their Grandmama and they never take a bus anywhere they went. Their grandmother says they have two legs for walking., but even after their long walks in town grandma tells them not to drink from the public fountain. That she has a better drink for them at home. The girls see that on the water fountains, the restrooms, the restaurants there are signs posted, but they didn’t know how to read. That summer Sarah Marie learned how to read and suddenly then understood what the signed said and meant.

// Integrating in the classroom: // show student real pictures of back then how the bathrooms, restuants, pools, water fountains, and buses were segregated by whites and blacks with the signs that mark “ whites only”. The pictures give students a visual of what African American would have to look at in their everyday lives and how they didn’t have the right to do what whites were able to do. Have a writing prompt on what they think about the story. Why were blacks only allowed to sit in the back of the bus? Why couldn’t they drink at a public water fountain? Why could they not sit in restaurants.

A bibliography of Dr. King that illuminates the civil rights movement and the historic importance of the speech and with award winning pictures that make the story come alive. On August 28th 1963, Martin Luther King delivers a speech that moved and inspired America. At a tie when the country was plagued by racial injustice Dr. king’s visionary dreams of equality ad brotherhood help light the way to a better future for millions of African Americans. Now, more than thirsty year later, his profound words can continue to lead use like a beacon of light, closer to the realization of his dream.
 * King, Scott, __I Have A Dream,__ 1997, 40 pages **

// Integrating in the classroom: // Show the pictures from the book to the students, asks what the pictures make them feel and what is going on. Have students write down their thoughts.


 * Mckissack, Patricia & Pinkney, Jerry, __Goin Someplace Special,__ 2001, 32 pages, Scottsdale Library **

1950s in a southern town where all are welcome, no matter what their skin color. 'Tricia Ann knows exactly how to get there. To her, it's someplace special and she's bursting to go by herself. When her grandmother sees that she's ready to take such a big step, 'Tricia Ann hurries to catch the bus heading downtown. But unlike the white passengers, she must sit in the back behind the Jim Crow sign and wonder why life's so unfair. Still, for each hurtful sign seen and painful comment heard, there's a friend around the corner reminding 'Tricia Ann that she's not alone. And even her grandmother's words -- "You are somebody, a human being, no better, no worse than anybody else in this world" A voice that echo’s in her head, lifting her spirits and pushing her forward. Patricia C. McKissack's poignant story of growing up in the segregated South and Jerry Pinkney's rich, detailed watercolors lead readers to the doorway of freedom. // Integrating in the classroom: // discuss the story and the art in the book. Show students how to water color and have them create their own masterpiece along with a written story about the book.

Ringgold bring unique artistic sensibility to the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the history of the civil rights movement. Ringgold is the narrator and describes a dream she has about Martin Luther King. It’s a dream that included scenes of segregation and protest. The book shoes imagination and imagines Martin Luther kind’s adult life from the Montgomery bus boycott to the March on Washington to his assassination. The vision of Ringgold own visuals show the gathering in Kings memory to trade in their prejudice fear, hate for hope, peace, and love, and the fulfillment of King’s dream of nonviolent social change. The powerful illustration is dramatic and says it all. // Integrating in the classroom: // Show pictures of the book and have students paint what they think their dream would on equality.
 * Ringgold, Faith __My dream of Martin Luther King,__ 1995, 26 pages, Scottsdale Library **

The 1950s and 1960s were a time of great upheaval in the U.S.. Many young people struggles against racism by risking their lives for the civil rights movement. In this book it will talk about young African Americans who made a difference. Some were known some tell their stories here for the first time. Fifteen- year- old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to white passengers. Elizebeth Eckford faces a crowd that calls her a name and spits on her as she tries to integrate a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Nin year old, Shyann Webb joins a march in Selma, Alabama, to protest racism and is met by police officers with sticks and tear gas. // Integrating in the classroom: // Have students split into groups, assign each group to a section from the book. Have the groups read their section write and draw pictures on the poster. Then have students present to the class their part of the book.
 * Rochelle, Belinda__, Witnesses to Freedom,__ 1993, 93 pages, Scottsdale Library **


 * Shelton, Paula, __Child of the civil Rights Movement__ 2009, 48 pages, Personal Book **.

Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family and thousands of other in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.

// Integrating in the classroom: // Discuss what equality is and about the civil right movement. What did children and teens march? What is the Civil rights movement ?

Letters from children around the U.S. that they wrote to Martin Luther King. // Integrating in the classroom // : have a lesson on Martin Luther King and have students write to Martin Luther King in what they would ask him if he were still alive.
 * __ Non-Fiction __**
 * Colbert, Jan & Harms, Ann, __Dear Dr. King ,__ 1998, 60 pages, Scottsdale Library **

This is a short fact book that talks about Martin Luther King Day and why he is celebrated. Talks about the history in What Martin Luther King fought for, such as segregation, the civil rights movement, and how he gave his life. Martin is an important person with the change he made in our lives. The real action pictures make the fact book come alive as a visual. // Integrating in the classroom: // Go over the vocabulary/key words from the book; race, rights, civil rights movement, culture, segregated, Jim Crow Laws. Discuss with the class about equal rights and how Martin Luther King believed and fought for black rights, then make Chains of Hands craft on page 21 in book.
 * Doering, Amanda __Martin Luther King Jr. Day__ 2006, 24 pages, Scottsdale Library **

On a hot August day in 1963, hundreds of thousands of people made history when they marched into Washington, D.C., in search of equality. Martin Luther King, Jr., the younger brother of Christine King Farris, was one of them. Martin was scheduled to speak to the crowds of the people, but before he could stand up an inspires the nation, he had to get down to business. He had to figure out what to say. He spent all night working on his speech “ I have a dream” speech, which would underscore a landmark moment in civil rights history. The book starts with an introduction on Martin. Martin’s brother is the narrator in the story. The famous speech “speech he did not sleep.” Made a huge impact on the people. In the black community they took Martin’s speech and then marched. // Integrating in the classroom // : Discuss why Martin Luther King was important. Why is speech made a difference. Then set a writing prompt on Martin Luther King by having students write about why Martin Luther King on why he was important.
 * Farris, Christine, __March On! The day my brother Martin changed the world.__ 2008, 25 pages, Scottsdale Library **

Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture- book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni’s evocative text combines with Bryan Collier’s striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.
 * Giovanni, Nikki, __Rosa ,__ 2005, 28 pages, Scottsdale Library **

// Integrating in the classroom: // Have a lesson on Rosa Park and the history in how she made a difference in the civil right movement. Then have students re act the scene when Rosa was on the bus as a play. Each child can have a part and then have a discussion on after on play. This book is a historic picture book that gives facts about major events with Martin’s death. Takes you back to the beginning with slavery to the movement, sitting and riding, marching for freedom, the struggle, and the fight for black rights. The black and white pictures on each page symbolize the important people, life event, newspapers, soldiers, and Martin Luther King Jr. // Integrating in the classroom: // Go over with the class the black and white pictures and give quick facts on what happened. Put the events together as a class and discuss. Split students up, give each group a section of the book, and have them make a presentation as a group report to then present to the class.
 * Haskins, Jim __The Day Martin Lurther King Jr., Was Shot.__ 1992, 93 pages, Scottsdale Library **

This book is a mini three chapter book that helps children translate what Martin Luther speech was about. On each page there is a description of the speech and on the other side of the page it translates the section of the speech for the child to understand. Having the their be three mini chapters splits it up with what it is, what it means, and how it came to be. At the end of the story there is a timeline of the major events from 1929-1968. There is also a why do I care page, which gives five reason why “I Have A Dream Speech” matters. Rich vocab is in bold through out the three chapter and children and learn new vocab, such as civil rights, discrimination, ghetto, inspire, oppression, police brutality, promissory note, pursuit, racist, riot, and segregation. // Integrating in the classroom: // Have a lesson on “I have a dream speech” and why its important. Break it up for the children following the book by having a writing prompt of what it is, what it means, and how it came to be. Go over vocabulary throughout the book and have a mini quiz.
 * Halland, Leslie, __Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream Speech in Translation__, 2009, 32 pages, Scottsdale Library **

A picture book story about a young African American girl names Rosa who has to walk miles to her one- room school house in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. In the book a bus talks, to a African American girl names Marcie. Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the civil rights movement. At the end of the ride, Marcie meets Rosa Parks herself at a birthday party with several distinguished guests. This story book tell children the of the historic event about Rosa Parks in their version. In real life back then Rosa Parks rode to work on a segregated city bus and couldn’t sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom. // Integrating in the classroom: // Have a writing prompt on Rosa Parks. Have student write to Rosa Parks to see what they would say to Rosa parks if they had the chance to meet her. Discuss with the class the importance of Rosa Parks and why she was a leader. What makes a good leader? How does a leader act? What does a leader do? Then have student write a report on Rosa Parks.
 * Ringgold, Faith, __If A Bus Could Talk,__ 1999, 23 pages, Personal Book **

When the supreme court decisions to desecrate public schools was handed down in 1954, the course of American history was forever changed. Brown vs. Board of Education affected the life of every child in the U.S. and elicited emotions ranging from joy, relief, and gratitude fear, anger, and resentment. Personal reflections, stories, and poems from ten of todays most accomplished writers for children, all young people themselves at the times of the Brown vs. Board of education decision. // Integrating in the classroom: // Discuss the Brown vs. Board of education. Have a debate by dividing the class in half and re act the case of having both side debate to each other.
 * Thomas Carl, Joyce, __Linda Brown, You are Not Alone__, 2003, 114 pages, Scottsdale Library. **


 * __ Teacher Resource __**

This book is more of an informational book on each major hero in the civil rights movement. The heroes that are discussed are Ralph Albernathy, Medgar Evers, Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, Michel Henry, The Greenboro Four, Fannie Lou Hammer, Lyndon, Baines, MLK Jr., The little Rick Nine, Thurgood Marshall Henry, Jaes, Meredith, Rosa Parks, Fred Shutleworth, Ealr Warren.
 * Adler, David, __Heroes for Civil Rights,__ 2008, 32 pages, Scottsdale Library **

The women that were the back bone of the civil rights movement and wouldn’t happen without them. They are the legions with whose names were not known. In this book you will meet women that were unknown that made it all happen. They are the southern African Americans of the 30’s 40’s and the women lawyers of the NAACP who worked on the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. In the book you also learn about the experience what it was like to be a Little Tock, Arkansas, in 1957 and the University of Georgia in 1959. The restaurant sit in’s are discussed and the buses of freedom in the early 60. While reading this book you fill in the missing parts of the story of the achievement of the civil rights era. Zita creates this book to transport back in that time to hear the women that were legions.
 * Allen, Zita, __Black Women Leaders of the Civil Rights movement,__ 1996, 128 pages, Scottsdale Library **

Mariah Anderson, a African American singer. Her deep rich voice thrilled audiences around the world. She was welcomed at the white house and adored by listeners in concert halls. Because of her race she was denied the right to sing at the constitution hall, Washington’s largest and finest auditorium. Though she was not a crusader or spokesperson, her response to this injustice catapulted her into the center of the civil rights movement of the time. She came to stand for all black artists, and for all African Americans. Freedman shows readers a singer pursing her art in the context of the social and political climate of the day. Photographs are shown and inspire the life of a talented artist who left her mark on musical and social history.
 * Freedman, Russell, The voice that Challenged a Nation, 2004, 109 pages, Scottsdale Library. **

A Informational book with pictures and discussions highlighting the issues on slavery, the civil rights movement, planning the march, a day in Washington DC, New voices of protest, and a timeline.
 * Ingram, Scott, __The 1963 Civil Rights March,__ 2005, 47 pages, Scottsdale Library **

May 1963, African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, had enough of segregation and police brutality, but with their live and jobs at stake, most adults were hesitant to protest the city’s raciest cultures. Instead the children and teenagers marched. At the time when the civil rights movement was struggling. Birmingham’s black youth answered Dr. Martin Luther kings call to “ fill the jails” of their city. In doing so, they drew national attention to the cause to help bring about the repeal of segregation lase, inspired thousands of other young people to demand their rights. Cynthia Recreates the events of Birmingham children’s match from a new and personal perspective.
 * Levinson, Cynthia, __We’ve Got a Job__ ,2012, 175 pages, Scottsdale Library **

A powerful book that goes into detail about the sacrifices and triumphs of what black went through for the pursuit of their social and political equality. The discussion on the importance of organizations during the civil rights movement. Goes into analyzing the impact of the civil rights land mark; Brown Vs. Board of education Montgomery bus boycott, lunch counter sit in’s, civil rights march, Washington Rally, “ I have a dream”’ Speech.
 * McWhorter, Diane, __A Dream of Freedom,__ 1991, 151 pages, Scottsdale Library **