Books for MLK Day

These books are some RAR favorites for remembering and celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. The booklist is designed to help you create the opportunity to have meaningful discussions with your kids about the topics you encounter in these stories.

A few of these (Martin Rising, Martin & Mahalia, Let the Children March, and Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop) may be best for older kids.

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Martin Rising: Requiem For a King
Martin’s Big Words
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream
Let the Children March
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop
A Place to Land
The Cart That Carried Martin
Belle, The Last Mule at Gee’s Bend: A Civil Rights Story
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
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