Nonfiction, Biographies, Memoirs

Days of Courage: The Little Rock Story, by Mel Williges (Steck-Vaughn Co., 1996)
Part of a series of non-fiction children's books edited by Alex Haley, this book describes the struggle by high school students to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. 4th grade and up.

Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen
By Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne. (Econo-Clad Books, 1997)
A student-friendly collection of oral histories, mostly in interview format, with people who participated in the Civil Rights Movement. The book grew out of an assignment from a fourth-grade teacher who worked with students and parents over seven years to collect hundreds of stories. Useful both for its content and as a model for doing oral history interviews. 4th grade and up.

We were there, too! : young people in U.S. history, by Phillip Hoose. (New York : Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001)
This book surveys important events in American history and examines the lives of dozens of youth who played a part in them. From the Revolutionary War to the civil rights movement and beyond, We were there, too! profiles young upstanders who helped to shape our nation.