Children's Books

Resources for Dismantling White Supremacy

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* Daddy Why Am I Brown?: A healthy conversation about skin color and family by Bedford F. Palmer

* The Skin I’m In: A First Look at Racism by Pat Thomas

A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret Holmes

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia

I Am Enough by Grace Byers

Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester

Sesame Street's "We're Different, We're the Same" by Bobbi Jane Kates

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard

The Colors of Us by Karen Katz

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes

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