Research from Harvard University suggests that children as young as three years old, when exposed to racism and prejudice, tend to embrace and accept it, even though they might not understand the feelings. By age 5, white children are strongly biased towards whiteness. To counter this bias, experts recommend acknowledging and naming race and racism with children as early and as often as possible. Children’s books are one of the most effective and practical tools for initiating these critical conversations; and they can also be used to model what it means to resist and dismantle oppression.
Beyond addressing issues of race and racism, this children’s reading list focuses on taking action. It highlights resistance, resilience and activism; and seeks to empower youth to participate in the ongoing movement for racial justice. These books showcase the diverse ways people of all ages and races have engaged in anti-racist activism, and highlight how race intersects with other issues, such as capitalism, class and colonization. The majority of books center activists of color, whose lives and bodies have been on the front lines of racial justice work, yet whose stories often go untold....
THE ENTIRE LIST OF BOOK TITLES IS REPRINTED HERE just in case the website goes away as it did from the first place I saw it.
The authors' names, descriptions and age appropriateness of each book at the link at the bottom of the list. Most of the books on this list are for small children as young as 4 to 8 years old, and some can be read to children even younger
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
When We Were Alone
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Nelson Mandela Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom We March That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement Josephine Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers Rosa Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
I don't think any black girls library should be without books on Ida B Wells, Daisy Bates, or the black women who won the space race for the United States ( of HIDDEN FIGURES movie fame) So here are a few more titles I found at Amazon. But I haven't read them. So, they may be for older children Ida B Wells: Let The Truth Be Told by Walter Dean Myers Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly The Power Of One: Daisy Bates And The Little Rock 9 Dennis Brindell Fradin Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History Vashti Harrison
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