National Human Rights Month – YA Book List

The water year [2020]

Max Howard

Captured : an American prisoner of war in North… [2019]

Alvin Townley

Ink knows no borders : poems of the immigrant… [2019]

Patrice Vecchione

Unpunished murder : massacre at Colfax and the… [2018]

Lawrence Goldstone

Votes for women! : American suffragists and the… [2018]

Winifred Conkling

Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true… [2018]

Bryan Stevenson

They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of… [2010]

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

March. Book one [2013]

John Lewis

Golden boy [2013]

Tara Sullivan

Dear Mrs. Naidu [2015]

Mathangi Subramanian

The fight for civil rights [2020]

Avery Elizabeth Hurt

John Lewis : civil rights champion and… [2020]

Alison Morretta

Lunch counter sit-ins : how photographs helped… [2019]

Danielle Smith-Llera

Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the… [2017]

Patricia Hruby Powell

She stood for freedom : the untold story of a… [2016]

Loki Mulholland

Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his… [2016]

Rich Wallace

Stolen justice : the struggle for African… [2020]

Lawrence Goldstone

The book of awesome Black Americans : scientific… [2020]

Monique L Jones

The fight for LGBTQ+ rights [2020]

Devlin Smith

The fight for disability rights [2020]

Lisa A Crayton

We are power : how nonviolent activism changes… [2020]

Todd Hasak-Lowy

Into the streets : a young person's visual… [2020]

Marke Bieschke

Freedom summer for young people : the violent… [2020]

Bruce Watson

Music from another world [2020]

Robin Talley

The new queer conscience [2020]

Adam Eli

Lifting as we climb : Black women's battle for… [2020]

Evette Dionne

We are not here to be bystanders : a memoir of… [2020]

Linda Sarsour

Pride : fifty years of parades and protests from… [2019]

Samantha Weiner

She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet… [2019]

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro Boys :… [2019]

Larry Dane Brimner

When they come for you : how police and… [2019]

David Kirby

Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a… [2019]

Mikki Kendall

Tomorrow will be different : love, loss, and the… [2018]

Sarah McBride

Modern HERstory : stories of women and nonbinary… [2018]

Blair Imani

Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights :… [2017]

Deborah Kops

A girl in three parts [2020]

Suzanne Daniel

Jane against the world : Roe v. Wade and the… [2020]

Karen Blumenthal

The seven necessary sins for women and girls [2019]

Mona Eltahawy

Watch us rise [2019]

Renée Watson

Period power : a manifesto for the menstrual… [2018]

Nadya Okamoto

How I resist : activism and hope for a new… [2018]

Maureen Johnson

Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the… [2016]

Laura Barcella

The road to marriage equality [2019]

John Mazurek

The gay liberation movement : before and after… [2019]

Sean Heather K McGraw

Pioneers of LGBTQ+ rights [2019]

Ellen McGrody

Beyond gender binaries : the history of trans,… [2019]

Rita Santos

Act up! : the war against HIV in the LGBTQ+… [2019]

Rita Santos

Binge [2015]

Tyler Oakley

The early history of the gay rights movement [2019]

Greg Baldino