The following booklist represents a portion of the books available in the Northglenn High School library. For additional books on this topic or related topics, please visit the library or use Destiny to search the collection.

Whose Right Is It? The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality

342.7308

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the "equality amendment," was passed in the years after the Civil War to help protect the rights and freedoms of Black Americans. In the centuries that followed, the amendment grew to protect the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people as well. But in recent years, the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment has shifted dramatically. A series of landmark Supreme Court cases—ranging from abortion to affirmative action—have rolled back the amendment's guarantees and called into question its usefulness as a tool in the fight for equality. What does the future hold for the Fourteenth?

Rise Up and Sing: Power, Protest, and Activism in Music

781.64 WAR (graphic novels)

Presents an illustrated look at the role of music in activism. Profiles dozens of musical artists who have used their work to highlight eight areas of activism: climate change, gender equality, peace, and human, civil, disability, indigenous, and 2SLGBTQIA+ rights. Includes quotes, playlists, photographs, and critical thinking questions.

Unequal: A Story of America

323.1196 DYS

The true story of racial inequality—and resistance to it—is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where we live, where we go to school, where we work, in our laws, and in our leadership. Unequal presents a gripping account of the struggles that shaped America, the insidiousness of racism, and demonstrates how inequality persists. As readers meet some of the many African American people who dared to fight for a more equal future, they will also discover a framework for addressing racial injustice in their own lives.

And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems

323.1196 MAR

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse. With historical photos interspersed throughout.

Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook

323 NOX

Revisiting episodes from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, Good Trouble highlights the essential lessons that modern-day activists and the civically minded can extract and embrace in order to move forward and create change. This thoughtful, fresh approach is sure to inspire conversation, action, and, most importantly, hope.

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World

323.3 MAT

Investigates the generation that grew up in the last thirty years in a United States reshaped by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Pride explores the rights given by the ADA's provisions, as well as how the autistic and neurodiversity self-advocacy movements have continued the work of disability justice, while also pointing out the movement's shortcomings.

So You Want to Talk about Race

305.8 OLU

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and how racism infects every aspect of American life.

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours

323 BAU

Chronicles events in the last days of Martin Luther King, Jr. Features quotes, a timeline, photographs, and further resources.

Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South

323 HUD

Memoir of civil rights activist Wade Hudson, covering his birth in 1946 in Mansfield, Louisiana through his coming of age in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Discusses how Hudson found his voice and began to use his writing to fight for his African American family and community.

On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

323 MCK

In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation's complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change.

Together: An Inspiring Response to the "Separate-But-Equal" Supreme Court Decision that Divided America

342.7308 NAT

The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that "separate-but-equal" was constitutional, sparking decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes. The author threads the personal stories of Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson into the larger history of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, race relations, and civil rights movements in New Orleans and throughout the United States.

March

LEW (graphic novels)

March presents in graphic novel format the life of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his youth in rural Alabama, his meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.