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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Trouble Maker for Justice
by Jacqueline Houtman,
Ages: 12+
Published: 2019
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 978-0-87286-765-9
Keywords: Diversity, Civil rights, LGBTQ, Pacifism, Quakers, African Americans
Committed pacifist, passionate human rights activist, and unabashedly gay African American Bayard Rustin is presented in this thorough account. Photographs, documents, and bibliography are included in the back matter.