Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books

A visual history of excellence in multicultural literature. — View List by Year —

Cover for This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School EqualityCover for Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America)Cover for Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret SchoolCover for Paul Robeson: Hero Before His Time (Biographies)Cover for Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in MarbleCover for Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for FreedomCover for Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park ServiceCover for Doll Test: Choosing EqualityCover for The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases)Cover for In Two Worlds: A Yu’pik Eskimo FamilyCover for Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies)Cover for HarrietCover for The Chinese AmericansCover for Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series)Cover for Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End SlaveryCover for In America’s ShadowCover for Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. WashingtonCover for A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American HeroCover for Issues in RacismCover for Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final HoursCover for A Fence Away From FreedomCover for Mexico and the United States: Their Linked DestiniesCover for Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeCover for Jim Thorpe’s Bright PathCover for Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers)Cover for Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiCover for Children of the Civil Rights EraCover for Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In AmericaCover for Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett TillCover for Through My EyesCover for Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American RevolutionCover for Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and ActivistCover for Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip FreelonCover for Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity (Hot Issues)Cover for Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement)Cover for RamadanCover for Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)Cover for A cry from the earth: Music of the North American IndiansCover for Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American GirlCover for Carter Reads the NewspaperCover for Let Them Play (True Story)Cover for Sequoyah’s Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee LeaderCover for We Are Not BrokenCover for Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, AlabamaCover for You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara BrooksCover for Buffalo DaysCover for Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans)Cover for Living in Two WorldsCover for Black music in America: A history through its peopleCover for Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run HitterCover for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar ChavezCover for Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball PioneerCover for Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom FightersCover for Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” ConnorCover for Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant CommunityCover for Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty (Captured History)Cover for The Amazing Age of John Roy LynchCover for The Sound That Jazz MakesCover for Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American HistoryCover for Booker T. Washington and EducationCover for John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights MovementCover for Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))Cover for Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a CityCover for Celebrating KwanzaaCover for The Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography)Cover for Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne Indians and America’s Energy CrisisCover for Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black ManCover for Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary ManCover for Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about KindnessCover for No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights MovementCover for Lincoln and Douglass: An American FriendshipCover for How My Family Lives in AmericaCover for William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground RailroadCover for War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute IndiansCover for Sitting Bull and His WorldCover for The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil RightsCover for Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series)Cover for Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth AmendmentCover for History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series)Cover for March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)Cover for The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal RightsCover for This Land Is Our Land: A History of American ImmigrationCover for Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American WhalersCover for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a LibraryCover for Slavery Time When I Was ChillunCover for The Riches of Oseola McCartyCover for Until Someone Listens: A Story about Borders, Family, and One Girl’s MissionCover for Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers (Latino Biography Library)Cover for Racial Prejudice (Issues in American History)Cover for Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke KahanamokuCover for Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters)Cover for The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History)Cover for A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” JohnsonCover for Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Children of the Tlingit (World’s Children)Cover for What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His PeopleCover for Shining Star: The Anna May Wong StoryCover for Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (Women of Our Time)Cover for Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of SongCover for A Long Hard Journey: The Story Of The Pullman PorterCover for America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience from A to ZCover for Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their InventionsCover for Celebrating HanukkahCover for Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback))Cover for Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln And The Dawn Of LibertyCover for Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Way People Live)Cover for Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas (English and Spanish Edition)Cover for TeammatesCover for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of ReconstructionCover for Breaking the ChainsCover for So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward FreedomCover for Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon GroveCover for Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))Cover for Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories)Cover for Justin and the Best Biscuits in the WorldCover for To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth TodayCover for The Great Migration: An American StoryCover for Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from SlaveryCover for With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce IndiansCover for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward JusticeCover for The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War IICover for Thurgood Marshall: A Life for JusticeCover for The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-SaCover for Reaching OutCover for Atlas of Asian-American History (Facts on File Library of American History)Cover for Because of You, John LewisCover for The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus BoycottCover for The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History)Cover for Story Painter: The Life of Jacob LawrenceCover for Pueblo StorytellerCover for A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919Cover for Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In AmericaCover for The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on TrialCover for Leon’s StoryCover for Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave (We Are Still Here)Cover for Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in AmericaCover for Prince Estabrook, Slave and SoldierCover for The March on WashingtonCover for Hoang Anh A Vietnamese-American BoyCover for Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for DesegregationCover for Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit)Cover for I Color Myself DifferentCover for Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage BandCover for Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans)Cover for The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History)Cover for Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)Cover for James Van Derzee: The Picture-Takin’ ManCover for Dear Benjamin BannekerCover for Children of the MayaCover for Maya Angelou: More Than a PoetCover for Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies (Enslow))Cover for Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh PiratesCover for The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums)Cover for Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Young Reader’s Hist- Civil War)Cover for I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)Cover for Rosa ParksCover for How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling BeeCover for The Life and Death of Crazy HorseCover for The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom DiaryCover for The UndefeatedCover for Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of JazzCover for Black and White Airmen: Their True HistoryCover for The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors)Cover for Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting DownCover for Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justiciaCover for Langston HughesCover for Gordon Parks: No ExcusesCover for Mississippi ChallengeCover for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race MassacreCover for The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights MovementCover for Roberto Clemente: Baseball’s Humanitarian Hero (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United StatesCover for Celebrating Chinese New YearCover for Hector lives in the United States now: The story of a Mexican-American childCover for When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime)Cover for A Nation’s Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe LouisCover for Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American ImmigrationCover for Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot BoxCover for Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth (Creative Minds Biography)Cover for Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a DifferenceCover for Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles (Prebound))Cover for Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in AmericaCover for Children of the Relocation Camps (Picture the American Past)Cover for Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses HortonCover for Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. MarshalCover for Buffalo HuntCover for Harlem’s Little BlackbirdCover for Fred Korematsu Speaks UpCover for Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961Cover for United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones)Cover for The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’ICover for Marian AndersonCover for Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, SlaveCover for Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)Cover for New Kids In Town: Oral Histories Of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic Biography)Cover for W.E.B. Dubois (Impact Biographies Series)Cover for Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to PeaceCover for Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War IiCover for The Rise and Fall of Jim CrowCover for Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised EditionCover for SacagaweaCover for An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo FrankCover for The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights ActivistCover for Black Stars of the Harlem RenaissanceCover for The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett JustCover for The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. PayneCover for Martin’s Dream DayCover for Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on WashingtonCover for Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a DifferenceCover for Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation CampCover for Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale HurstonCover for Black Heroes of the Wild WestCover for Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans)

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