"Brown Like Me" Books
Books for Kids Featuring Black Characters
I absolutely love this book! It features 40+ African American women who made huge strides throughout history. The pages are filled with adorable illustrations and biographical text for the bold women in Black history!
This is a great easy-reader chapter book about Rosa Parks, who made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Using the uniting power of song, this book documents many of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement in the fight for freedom.
From the Little People, Big Dreams series, this book tells of how Martin decided as a young person, that when he grew up, he would "fight injustice with the most powerful weapon of all: words."
An unsung hero of the civil rights movement, Georgia Gilmore utilized her passion for cooking to help fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began in 1955.
This is a wonderful book that empowers girls through the celebration of 24 inspiring women who affected change through history.
Every year millions of people climb the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. They come to see the statue of Abraham Lincoln, a man who inspired change.
