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205 Books in the JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional Category

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Seven Million Steps: The True Story of Dick Gregory’s Run for the Hungry Rosa Parks: A Little Golden Book Biography A Flea For Justice: Marian Wright Edelman Stands Up for Change Lucy Sings on Lucy Street Who Is Cynthia Erivo? A Mighty Long Way (Adapted for Young Readers): My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America It’s Not Bragging If It’s True: How to Be Awesome at Life, from a Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson Amanda Gorman Jordan Peele Toni Morrison The History of Juneteenth: A History Book for New Readers Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler A History of Me The People Remember Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic I Am Rosa Parks Hold the Flag High: The True Story of the First Black Medal of Honor Winner Wild Rain: Women Who Dare Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! What Is the Civil Rights Movement? The ABCs of Black History William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad Black Heroes of the Wild West Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote Wild Rain (mass market paperback): Women Who Dare A Black Woman Did That The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne EMMA Frederick Douglass: Voice for Justice, Voice for Freedom March Forward, Girl Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace Think Big, Little One Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963) A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation Hector: A Boy, a Protest, and the Photograph That Changed Apartheid Sonny’s Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Finds His Groove Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound Bivouac A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon Let ’er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion Biddy Mason Speaks Up Carter Reads the Newspaper This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story Josephine Baker (Little People, Big Dreams) Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present I Am Harriet Tubman March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad All About Madam C. J. Walker Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library 42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls Martin’s Dream Day Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness Preaching to the Chickens Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions Brick by Brick: A Snippet of the Life of Booker T. Washington Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Mister And Lady Day: Billie Holiday And The Dog Who Loved Her Jackie Robinson: American Hero Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans) Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Fighter for Justice Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington Molly, by Golly!: The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter Barack Obama: Son Of Promise, Child Of Hope The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Picture Book Edition Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer—who’s that, who? Why, that’s MISS Josephine Baker, to you! Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Paula Wiseman Books) Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till A Nation’s Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave Malia And Sasha Obama (Star Biographies) Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson Who Is Barack Obama? Scholastic Reader Level 2: Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story: My True Story Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom Bishop Daniel A. Payne: Great Black Leader Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement) Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story I And I Bob Marley Paul Robeson Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady Ida B. Wells: Let The Truth Be Told Becoming Billie Holiday Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope Booker T. Washington and Education Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane George Washington Carver Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement Gordon Parks: No Excuses Portraits Of African-American Heroes Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters) Love to Langston Booker T. Washington: Educator and Spokesman Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates Martin Luther King, Jr. (Heroes of America) The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors) Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies (Enslow)) Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist Sacagawea My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez Book of Black Heroes: Scientists, Healers, and Inventors (Volume 3) If A Bus Could Talk: The Story Of Rosa Parks Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover)) Only Passing Through Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers) Langston’s Legacy: 101 Ways to Celebrate the Life and Work of Langston Hughes Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance Martin’s Big Words (hardcover): The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Carver: A Life in Poems Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Gone from Home: Short Takes Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano Satchel Paige Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) Through My Eyes The Riches of Oseola McCarty Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a Difference Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes Maya Angelou: Journey of the Heart The Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography) Charlie Parker Played Be Bop Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! Toni Morrison (Contemporary Biographies) Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman Colin Powell (Contemporary African Americans) Dear Benjamin Banneker Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans) Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies) Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement (Makers of America) Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I A Woman? Teammates Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series) Madam C.J. Walker (Black Americans of Achievement) Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Birthday Josephine Baker Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth (Creative Minds Biography) A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver Rosa Parks