Top Social Justice Books for High School Students

It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior

James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)

James Baldwin: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of American Authors)

James Meredith and the Little Rock Nine: The History of the Civil Rights Icons Who Integrated Schools in the South after Brown v. Board of Education

James Meredith and the University of Mississippi: The History of the School’s Integration During the Civil Rights Movement

James Meredith: Breaking the Barrier

Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy

Jazz Mergirl: The True Story of Jazz Jennings, a Transgender Girl Born in a Boy's Body

Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Killing Crazy Horse (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series)

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (P.S.)

Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Lift Up Thy Voice: The Sarah and Angelina Grimké Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

Living the Spirit, A Gay American Indian Anthology (Stonewall Inn Editions)

Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)

Long Walk To Freedom

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

Love and Fury: Mary Wollstonecraft - Trailblazer. Fearless Thinker. Mother.

Lucy Burns, A Passionate Rebel For Women's Suffrage

Malcolm X For Beginners

Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

Malcolm X: A Life From Beginning to End (Civil rights movement)