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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



Freedom School, Yes!

By Amy Littlesugar

ELIT



Chapter Books

The Watsons Go To

Birmingham -- 1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

FCUR



Roll of Thunder,

Hear My Cry

by Mildred Taylor

FTAY





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!



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

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