Books: Non-Fiction
500 Años del Pueblo Chicano - 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures
Book - Nonfiction. By Elizabeth Martinez. 1991 (2nd Edition)
Civil Rights Movements, Latino, Native American, Women's History
500 Years of Chicana Women’s History
Book - Nonfiction. By Elizabeth Martinez. 2007. 340 pages.
Stories and photos of Mexican-American women in politics, labor, art, health, and more.
Civil Rights Movements, Immigration, Latino, Women's History
Addicted to War: An Illustrated Guide
Book - Nonfiction. By Joel Andreas. 2004. 77 pages.
An comic book expose on militarism.
Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
After Ghandi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance
Book - Nonfiction. By Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmund O’Brien. 192 pages.
Stories about 15 activists who continue in the tradition of Ghandi, written and illustrated for upper elementary and middle school.
African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents
Book - Nonfiction. Edited by Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon. 2009. 259 pages.
This collection of essays and primary documents connects the experience of African Americans fighting in the Haitian revolution with changing ideas of identity in the United States.
The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
Book - Nonfiction. Edited by Edwidge Danticat. 2001.
Thirty-three essays and poems describing the Hatian Émigré experience.
Brother, I’m Dying
Book - Nonfiction. By Edwidge Danticat. 2008. 288 pages.
A gripping autobiographical book, about one Haitian woman’s experience as a young immigrant and her family’s struggle to survive in the United States while fearing for those they left behind.
Artists in Times of War
Book - Nonfiction. By Howard Zinn. 2004. 112 pages.
In this collection of four essays, Zinn writes about the unique role of artists, activists, and publishers in working toward change.
Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman’s Race for the Presidency
Book - Nonfiction. By Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen. Illustrated by Courtney E. Martin. 2008. 32 pages.
Biography of Belva Lockwood who ran for President in 1884.
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
Book-Nonfiction. By James Haskins. 1997. 128 pages.
