For patrons looking for information on race, justice, and activism, we’ve collected a variety of resources that we hope will be useful. Below are resources for discussions and reflection at any age – children, teens, adults, or self-directed learning.

Books for Children

• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
• Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan
• Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
• Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
• Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
  
  Additional resources:
  Teaching Your Child about Black History from PBS

Books for 4th-6th Graders

• Chains: Seeds of America by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
• New Kid by Jerry Craft
• Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Books for Teens

• One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
• Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Teenage Rebels by Barrett Dawson
• We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson
  Fiction
• All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• March, Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
• Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

Books for Adults

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Well-Read Black Girl edited by Glory Edim
  Fiction
• Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Additional resources:
Why Is This Happening? from The 100 Year Hoodie
Resources for Learning to Talk about Race
Code Switch Podcast from NPR
13th (documentary) by Ava DuVernay plus discussion & educational materials