Peacemakers, Activists, Role Models
Nonfiction
An Apple for Harriet Tubman by Glennette Tilley Turner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQyT9fgJOrQ
Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story by Arun Gandhi & Bethany Hegedus
Eleanor, Quiet No More by Doreen Rappaport – the story of Eleanor Roosevelt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMIxkHEN5g
Grandfather Gandhi By: Arun Gandhi & Bethany Hegedus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rCe0uxZVB8
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5F5JkvXuaQ
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker by Robbie Robertson – as told to the author in an Iroquois longhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4eEy0sWAHs
Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger by Anita Silvey
Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words by Karen Leggett Abouraya
Marching with Aunt Susan by Claire Rudolf Murphy – story of woman’s suffrage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI8AMLu7pYM
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc39Ka8ut6k
Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue – story of Ron McNair, who as a child was prevented from taking out library books in South Carolina, and his stand for fairness. As an adult, McNair was lost to us in the Challenger disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8AVrNn7opM
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni – story of Rosa Parks and the bus boycott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjC2TE5CMw
Sadako by Eleanor Coerr & Ed Young – story of a little girl who had leukemia as a result of the H Bomb
Samantha Smith: Young Ambassador by Patricia Stone Martin & Bernard Doctor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k36qpQqGh8
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx by Jonah Winter (in English and Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swAnRW9noEI
Teammates by Peter Golenbock &Paul Bacon – Jackie Robinson’s story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swAnRW9noEI
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba – story of an African boy who brought water and electricity to his village
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdwvJRE375Y
The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps by Jeanette Winter