2016 - The Lives and Contributions of Under-Represented People in History

This text set was created for the 2016 “New Frontiers in Biography and History” conference at the 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. All links may not be active. 

Educational Access

Appelt, K. , Schmitzer, J.C. (2001). Down Shin Cut Creek: The pack horse librarians of Kentucky. New York: Harper Collins.

Bolden, T. (2005). Maritcha: A nineteenth-century American girl. New York: Abrams. 

Goodman, S. (2016). The first step: How one girl put segregation on trial. Ill. by E.B. Lewis. New York: Bloomsbury.

Brown, M. (2011). Waiting for the biblioburro. Ill. by J. Parra. Berkley, CA: Tricycle Press.

Hanson, H. (2009). That book woman. Ill. by D. Small. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-first-step-how-one-girl-put.html

Jurmain, S. (2005). The forbidden schoolhouse: The true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Young Readers.

Pinkney, A. (2014). The red pencil. Ill. by S. Evans. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-red-pencil.html

Rumford, J. (2010). Rain school. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Young Readers.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2010/10/rain-school.html

Tonatiuh, D. (2014). Separate is never equal: Sylvia Mendez and her family’s fight for desegregation. New York: Abrams Books for Children.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/02/separate-is-never-equal.html

Winter, J. (2010). Biblioburro. New York: Beach Lane Books.

Winter, J. (2005). The librarian of Basra: A true story from Iraq. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Young Readers.

Winter, J. (2009). Nasreen’s secret school. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Young Readers.

Innovators and Inventors

Bolden, T. (2008). George Washington Carver. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers.

Fern, Tracy. (2014). Dare the wind: The record-breaking voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud. Ill. by E.A. McCully. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

Fleming, C. (2013). Papa’s Mechanical Fish. Ill. by B. Kulikov. New York: Margaret Ferguson Books.

Pinkney, A.D. (1994). Dear Benjamin Banneker. Ill. by B. Pinkney. Orlando, FL: Gulliver Books.

McCully, E.A. (2008). Manjiro: The boy who risked his life for two countries. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

McCully, E.A. (2006). Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight became an inventor. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

McCully, E.A. (2008). My heart glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the birth of American Sign Language. New York: Hyperion.

Revolutions

Aronson, M. (2005). The Real Revolution. New York: Clarion.

Blair, M. (2010). Liberty or death: The surprising story of runaway slaves who sided with the British during the American Revolution. Washington, DC: National Geographic.

Fleming, C. (2014). The Family Romanov: Murder, rebellion, and the fall of Imperial Russia. New York: Random House.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-family-romanov.html

Orwell, G. (1945/2004 ). Animal Farm. New York: Signet Classic. 

Roth, S., Abourya, K. (2012). Hands around the library: Protecting Egypt’s treasures.  New York: Dial.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/10/hands-around-library-protecting-egypts.html

Historical Mysteries

Aronson, M. (2010). If stones could speak: Unlocking the secrets of Stonehenge. Washington, DC: National Geographic.

Bolden, T. (2014). Searching for Sarah Rector: The richest black girl in America. New York: Abrams. 

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2014/09/searching-for-sarah-rect.html

Fleming, C. (2014). The family Romanov: Murder, rebellion, and the fall of Imperial Russia. New York: Random House.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-family-romanov.html

Performance

Bolden, T. (2007). Take-Off: American all-girl bands during World War II. New York: Knopf.

Pinkney, A. D. (1993). Alvin Ailey. Ill. by B. Pinkney. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.

Pinkney, A. D. (1996). Bill Pickett: Rodeo-ridin’ cowboy. Ill. by B. Pinkney. New York: Gulliver Books.

Pinkey, A.D. (2013). Martin and Mahalia: His words, her song. Ill. by B. Pinkney. New York: Little, Brown Books. 

Pinkney, A. D. (2015). Rhythm Ride: A road trip through the Motown sound. New York: Roaring Brook Press.

New Lenses on Free and Enslaved African-Americans of the Late 18^th-Mid 19^th-Century  

Bolden, T. (2015). Capitol days: Michael Shiner’s journal and the growth of our nation’s capital. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers.

Bolden, T. (2001). Tell all the children our story: Memories and momentos of being young and Black in America. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers.

Hill, L. C. (2010). Dave the Potter. Ill. by B. Collier. Little, Brown and Company.

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/02/2011-ala-coretta-scott-king-illustrator.html

Huey, L. M. (2016). Forgotten bones: Uncovering a slave cemetery. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Press.

McCully, E. A. (2007). The escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s slave finds freedom. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

Nelson, M. (2015). My Seneca village.  : namelos.