Picture Books: Peaceful Protests

We are currently studying Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as our Philosopher for Love, so I have been looking through my library for books on nonviolent protests. Here is what I've found. Please let me know if you think of others!

Sit-Ins

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
1960 - Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, Greensboro NC

Strikes

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
by Alice Faye Duncan
1968 - Sanitation workers' strike, Memphis TN

Boycotts

Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!
by Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose
1955-1956 - Bus boycott, Montgomery AL



Side by Side/Lado a lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez
by Monica Brown
1968-1970 - Grape boycott, nationwide

Marches

Let the Children March
by Monica Clark-Robinson
1963 - Children's march, Birmingham AL



Gandhi: A Race to the Sea
by Alice McGinty
1930 - Salt march, India



Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children
by Jonah Winter
1903 - Children's march, Philadelphia PA to New York City



Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage
Claire Rudolf Murphy
1896 - Suffragist parade, Berkeley CA

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