LibGuides: Grade 9 Social Studies suggested reading: Unit 2 Social control and social movement

Social Movements

Civil disobedience is a nonviolent way to try to change laws. It is a symbolic, but nevertheless real, violation of what is considered an unjust law rather than the rejection of a whole system of laws and government. Proponents of such resistance assert that legitimate avenues of change are blocked, and they see themselves as obligated by higher principles or ideals to break a specific law. It is because civil disobedience is an acknowledged crime that it can serve as a protest. By submitting to punishment, the lawbreaker hopes to set a moral example that will provoke the majority or the government to effect a meaningful change through change in law and public policy. The major qualification is that the disobedience be nonviolent.

"Civil disobedience." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 16 Jul. 2021. school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/civil-disobedience/273686#198749.toc. Accessed 14 Oct. 2022.

Books from the Library

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN: 9780060760908
Publication Date: 2011-12-27
n this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them.Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile is nothing like they imagined. While the girls hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their family, their country, and themselves during one truly crazy summer.This moving, funny novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story continues in P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama. Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in One Crazy Summer. This novel was the first featured title for Marley D's Reading Party, launched after the success of #1000BlackGirlBooks. Maria Russo, in a New York Times list of "great kids' books with diverse characters," called it "witty and original."