US: WWII & Civil Rights Movement - Mid 20th Century
Books
WWII Era: Available at BHS Library
* Not yet available
Civil Rights & Human Rights Movements: Available through the public library system
Books indicated are available at the Beverly Public Library (BPL); others may be requested through the BHS librarian or the public library.
WWII Era: Available at BHS Library
- Albert Einstein - Essential Lives
- Eleanor Roosevelt - Essential Lives
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Essential Lives
- Winston Churchill - Essential Lives
- Adolf Hitler - Essential Lives
- Timeline of World War II: Europe & North Africa - Americans at War series
- Timeline of World War II: Pacific - Americans at War Series
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor - Perspectives On series
- Hiroshima: Birth of the Nuclear Age - Perspectives On series
* Not yet available
- Mahatma Gandhi - Essential Lives
- The Civil Rights Movement - Cornerstones of Freedom Series *
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott - Perspectives On series
- Nelson Mandela - Essential Lives
Civil Rights & Human Rights Movements: Available through the public library system
Books indicated are available at the Beverly Public Library (BPL); others may be requested through the BHS librarian or the public library.
- Birmingham Sunday by Larry Dane Brimner
- Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice / by Phillip Hoose (at BPL; also available as a downloadable audiobook and as a CD)
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s I have a dream speech in translation : what it really means / by Leslie J. Holland
- The civil rights movement : an interactive history adventure by Heather Adamson
- Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement by Ann Bausum (at BPL)
- Freedom song : young voices and the struggle for civil rights by Mary C. Turck
- Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott by Russell Freedman (at BPL)
- Marching for freedom : walk together, children, and don't you grow weary by Elizabeth Partridge (at BPL)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jennifer Fandel
- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott by Connie Colwell Miller
- Students on strike : growing up African American in the segregated South by John A. Stokes and Lois Wolfe with Herman Viola
- X : a biography of Malcolm X by Jessica Gunderson