(3) 4-6 Freedom's Promise series. Cleanly designed and supported with lots of photos, these books feature clear texts that help contextualize pivotal episodes in African American history. The treatments don't shy away from the violence and hatred that the fight for civil rights unleashed in America. Bloody looks at how the U.S. civil rights movement inspired Catholic activists in Northern Ireland. There are eight other spring 2019 books in this series. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Freedom's Promise titles: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine, The March on Washington and Its Legacy, Ruby Bridges and the Desegregation of American Schools, and Two Bloody Sundays.

Reviewer: Monique Harris

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Frank Morrison. As one of the Little Rock Nine, Beals helped integrate Central High School in 1957; here she recounts the childhood years that led up to that important step (described in the epilogue). Fear was a constant, as she learned early that "the color of my skin framed the entire scope of my life." Beals's account is made even more immediate by photographs and Morrison's child-friendly black-and-white illustrations.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2018

(4) 4-6 Stories of the Civil Rights Movement series. This series provides upper-elementary students with in-depth coverage of phases and events of the U.S. civil rights movement. The narratives are supplemented effectively with archival photographs and primary source quotes. With overt Common Core–related intention, readers are challenged with overabundant sidebars and inserts containing critical-thinking questions, writing prompts, and suggested research topics and readings. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Stories of the Civil Rights Movement titles: James Meredith and the University of Mississippi, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Summer, 1964, The Little Rock Nine, Nonviolent Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement, The Passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Reviewer: Henrietta M. Smith

(3) 4-6 Story of the Civil Rights Movement in Photographs series. These informative books are moving photographic displays of the peaks of the civil rights movement. An introduction contextualizes each volume's events, which are then portrayed through black-and-white archival images with explanatory captions and through narrations of event details and key figures; frequent inclusion of primary-source quotes contributes to the sense of immediacy. Reading list, timeline, websites. Ind. Review covers these The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in Photographs titles: The Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Photographs, The Story of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement in Photographs, The Story of the Civil Rights Freedom Rides in Photographs, The Story of the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Photographs, The Story of the Little Rock Nine in Photographs, and The Story of the Selma Voting Rights Marches in Photographs.

Reviewer: Lauren Causey

(3) 4-6 Captured History series. Photographs can often be more powerful than the written word in bringing social change. The work of Lewis Hine to improve child labor laws and Will Counts to show the vulnerability of those trying to integrate schools are prime examples. These well-written narratives are illustrated with numerous captioned photographs. Timeline, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Captured History titles: Breaker Boys and Little Rock Girl 1957.

Reviewer: Barbara Barstow