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Click for more detail about A Flag for Juneteenth by Kim Taylor
Click for more detail about Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Click for more detail about Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Click for more detail about What Is Juneteenth? by Kirsti Jewel
Click for more detail about Because of You, John Lewis by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Click for more detail about A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
Click for more detail about Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems by Eloise Greenfield
Click for more detail about Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1963 (Library Edition) (Library) by Angela Shanté
Click for more detail about Born on the Water: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Click for more detail about Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Click for more detail about Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge by Gary Golio
Click for more detail about The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi
Click for more detail about Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress by Alicia D. Williams
Click for more detail about The Burning (Young Readers Edition): Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Tim Madigan
Click for more detail about Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
Click for more detail about Becoming Adapted for Young Readers by Michelle Obama
Click for more detail about Wild Rain: Women Who Dare by Beverly Jenkins
Click for more detail about Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! by Jamia Wilson
Click for more detail about Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States by Louisa Jaggar and Shari Becker
Click for more detail about Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman’s Dreams Took Flight by Karyn Parsons
Click for more detail about Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters by Suzanne Slade
Click for more detail about This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
Click for more detail about William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad by Don Tate
Click for more detail about The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
Click for more detail about Follow Your Dreams, Little One by Vashti Harrison
Click for more detail about Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes
Click for more detail about Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood by Tony Hillery
Click for more detail about Rebecca Lee Crumpler by J. P. Miller
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Click for more detail about Shirley Chisholm by J. P. Miller
Click for more detail about Major Taylor by J. P. Miller
Click for more detail about Henry Louis Gates Jr. by J. P. Miller
Click for more detail about Wild Rain (mass market paperback): Women Who Dare by Beverly Jenkins
Click for more detail about Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles by Michelle Meadows
Click for more detail about Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
Click for more detail about Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade
Click for more detail about A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story by Sharon Langley
Click for more detail about A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
Click for more detail about Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens by M.J. Fievre
Click for more detail about The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Click for more detail about The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta
Click for more detail about Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Click for more detail about The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Click for more detail about Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues by Leah Henderson
Click for more detail about Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel by Toyomi Igus
Click for more detail about What Were the Negro Leagues? by Varian Johnson
Click for more detail about Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan
Click for more detail about Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Click for more detail about M Is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child by Tiffany Rose
Click for more detail about Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963) by Sharon Robinson
Click for more detail about Thurgood by Jonah Winter
Click for more detail about Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song by Cynthia Grady
Click for more detail about The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives by Eloise Greenfield
Click for more detail about A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein
Click for more detail about For Black Girls Like Me by Torrey Maldonado
Click for more detail about Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson
Click for more detail about Wilma Rudolph (Little People, BIG DREAMS) by Isabel Sãnchez Vegara
Click for more detail about Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound by Kathleen Cornell Berman
Click for more detail about The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about Muhammad Ali (Little People, BIG DREAMS) by Isabel Sãnchez Vegara
Click for more detail about Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson
Click for more detail about Biddy Mason Speaks Up by Arisa White and Laura Atkins
Click for more detail about Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson
Click for more detail about Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins by Michelle Meadows
Click for more detail about This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
Click for more detail about Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Click for more detail about Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver by Tami Charles
Click for more detail about Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter by Nadia L. Hohn
Click for more detail about Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito
Click for more detail about Dream Big, Little Leader by Vashti Harrison
Click for more detail about So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary D. Schmidt
Click for more detail about Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Click for more detail about We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
Click for more detail about Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Click for more detail about Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Click for more detail about A Girl Named Misty: The True Story of Misty Copeland (American Girl: A Girl Named) by Kelly Starling Lyons
Click for more detail about Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School by Janet Halfmann
Click for more detail about Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson
Click for more detail about Seeing Into Tomorrow by Richard Wright
Click for more detail about Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Click for more detail about I Am Harriet Tubman by Brad Meltzer
Click for more detail about Racing against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beals
Click for more detail about A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
Click for more detail about A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
Click for more detail about Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin by James L. Swanson
Click for more detail about The United States V. Jackie Robinson by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Click for more detail about All About Madam C. J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles
Click for more detail about Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Click for more detail about Before She was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Click for more detail about Pelé: The King of Soccer by Eddy Simon
Click for more detail about Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song by Kathryn Erskine
Click for more detail about That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about 42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero by Doreen Rappaport
Click for more detail about Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? by James Buckley Jr.
Click for more detail about Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee! by Andrea J. Loney
Click for more detail about Chasing Space Young Readers’ Edition by Leland Melvin
Click for more detail about My Daddy Rules the World: Poems About Fathers by Hope Anita Smith
Click for more detail about The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life by Kwame Alexander
Click for more detail about The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson
Click for more detail about Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
Click for more detail about Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle
Click for more detail about How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Brick by Brick: A Snippet of the Life of Booker T. Washington by Louie T McClain
Click for more detail about We March by Shane W. Evans
Click for more detail about Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial by Susan E. Goodman
Click for more detail about I am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer
Click for more detail about Who Was George Washington Carver? by Jim Gigliotti
Click for more detail about Heroes of Black History by Bonnie Bader
Click for more detail about My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey to Alvin Ailey by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Click for more detail about Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
Click for more detail about Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
Click for more detail about Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Dad, Who Will I Be? by G. Todd Taylor
Click for more detail about One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul
Click for more detail about Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer (Step Into Reading, Step 4) by Michaela and Elaine Deprince
Click for more detail about With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School by Suzanne Slade
Click for more detail about Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America by Russell Freedman
Click for more detail about The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage by Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles
Click for more detail about I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer
Click for more detail about Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin
Click for more detail about The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
Click for more detail about Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
Click for more detail about Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Click for more detail about Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Click for more detail about Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
Click for more detail about In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall by Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma
Click for more detail about You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! by Jonah Winter
Click for more detail about Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Click for more detail about I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Arthur R. Flowers
Click for more detail about Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Fighter for Justice by Patricia C. Mckissack
Click for more detail about Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Click for more detail about Brick by Brick by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Click for more detail about Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim
Click for more detail about Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson
Click for more detail about Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane’s Musical Journey by Gary Golio
Click for more detail about I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Click for more detail about Molly, by Golly!: The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter by Dianne Ochiltree
Click for more detail about I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate
Click for more detail about Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours by Ann Bausum
Click for more detail about Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice
Click for more detail about Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William L. Katz
Click for more detail about Stars in the Shadows: The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934 by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Click for more detail about Freedom’s a-Callin Me by Ntozake Shange
Click for more detail about What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
Click for more detail about Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Paula Wiseman Books) by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Click for more detail about Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration Of Rosa, Barack, And The Pioneers Of Change by Michelle Cook
Click for more detail about I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery by Cynthia Grady
Click for more detail about Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange
Click for more detail about Jimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow: A Story Of The Young Jimi Hendrix by Gary Golio
Click for more detail about Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill
Click for more detail about Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Click for more detail about Scholastic Reader Level 2: Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story: My True Story by Ruby Bridges
Click for more detail about Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation by Pat Sherman
Click for more detail about We Troubled the Waters by Ntozake Shange
Click for more detail about On My Journey Now: Looking At African-American History Through The Spirituals by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Click for more detail about Change Has Come: An Artist Celebrates Our American Spirit by Kadir Nelson
Click for more detail about My People by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers
Click for more detail about Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement by Useni Eugene Perkins
Click for more detail about Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Click for more detail about We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Click for more detail about Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson
Click for more detail about I Dream For You A World: A Covenant For Our Children by Charisse Carney-Nunes
Click for more detail about Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Click for more detail about Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon by Ruth Forman
Click for more detail about Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards)) by Russell Freedman
Click for more detail about Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra Pinkney
Click for more detail about Let Them Play (True Story) by Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison
Click for more detail about A Negro League Scrapbook by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
Click for more detail about Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Click for more detail about The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews
Click for more detail about History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series) by James Tackach
Click for more detail about Days Of Jubilee by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Click for more detail about American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (Young Readers Adaptation) by Gail Lumet Buckley
Click for more detail about Tell All The Children Our Story: Memories And Mementos Of Being Young And Black In America by Tonya Bolden
Click for more detail about Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan
Click for more detail about To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Click for more detail about Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Click for more detail about The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson
Click for more detail about Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks by Carole Boston Weatherford
Click for more detail about Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Click for more detail about Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World by James Haskins
Click for more detail about Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Walter Dean Myers, Haki R. Madhubuti, Lucille Clifton and 8 others
Click for more detail about For The Love Of The Game: Michael Jordan And Me (Trophy Picture Books) by Eloise Greenfield
Click for more detail about The New York Public Library Amazing African American History: A Book Of Answers For Kids by The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick
Click for more detail about Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War Ii by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Click for more detail about Ego-Tripping And Other Poems For Young People by Nikki Giovanni
Click for more detail about Black Fairy and Other Plays by Useni Eugene Perkins
Click for more detail about Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power by Jacqueline Johnson
Click for more detail about Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Birthday by Jacqueline Woodson
Click for more detail about Honey, I Love And Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield
Click for more detail about Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield