Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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The March Against Fear
by Ann Bausum
Ages: 12+
Published: 2017
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN: 978-1-4263-2665-3
Keywords: Civil Rights, Black power, Non-violence
ARC - James Meridith's life, the march across Mississippi, and the conflict between Stokely Carmichael's “Black Power” movement and Martin Luther King Jr.'s non-violence are evoked with great detail and archival photographs. (Check final copy for photo captions.)