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Historical FictionThe Civil Rights Movement
Laura FullerLIB 525
What is Historical Fiction?
• HF brings together historical fact and imagination.
• HF stories are set in the past.
• The setting is authentic, the characters could have or did exist, and the plot is believable.
• A movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
http://www.askkids.com/web?q=Definition+of+Civil+Rights+Movement&qsrc=6&o=0&l=dir
Put the two together and get:
• Stories about the fight for civil rights that took place from the late 1800s through the mid-1960s.
• Stories that focus on discrimination and the struggle for equal rights.
• Themes that include human suffering, injustice, tolerance, and understanding.
Picture Books
Aunt Harriet's Underground
Railroad in the Sky
by Faith Ringgold
ERIN
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Freedom School, Yes!
By Amy Littlesugar
ELIT
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Chapter Books
The Watsons Go To
Birmingham -- 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
FCUR
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Roll of Thunder,
Hear My Cry
by Mildred Taylor
FTAY
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Why Historical Fiction?
• HF transports readers to places, times, and cultures not otherwise possible.
• HF often shares the past from a perspective not always discussed in textbooks.
• Reading HF helps us appreciate that everyone plays a role in history.
You can determine your role in history and position your life on that path!
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Ask for a complete Bibliography of books on
the Civil Rights Movement in our library at the
Circulation Desk or visit our website:
http://www.belib.edu