Carter G. Woodson Award Books
Since 1970: All 221 Winning and Honored Titles
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2025 2025:
Doll Test: Choosing Equality
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Carolrhoda Books)
2024 2024:
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Candlewick Press (MA))
2024 2024:
Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington
by Michael G. Long (Little Bee Books)
2023 2023:
Because of You, John Lewis
by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Scholastic Press)
2023 2023:
I Color Myself Different
by Colin Kaepernick (Kaepernick Publishing)
2023 2023:
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
by Candacy Taylor (Abrams Press)
2023 2023:
Until Someone Listens: A Story about Borders, Family, and One Girl’s Mission
by Estela Juarez with Lissette Norman (Roaring Brook Press)
2022 2022:
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Carolrhoda Books)
2022 2022:
We Are Not Broken
by George M. Johnson (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
2021 2021:
Black Heroes of the Wild West
by James Otis Smith (Toon Graphics)
2021 2021:
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
by Kelly Starling Lyons (Lee & Low Books)
2021 2021:
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box
by Evette Dionne (Viking Books for Young Readers)
2021 2021:
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Paula Wiseman Books)
2021 2021:
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
by Don Tate (Peachtree Publishers)
2020 2020:
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
by Larry Dane Brimner (Calkins Creek)
2020 2020:
Carter Reads the Newspaper
by Deborah Hopkinson (Peachtree Publishers)
2020 2020:
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace
by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
2020 2020:
The Undefeated
by Kwame Alexander (Versify)
2020 2020:
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy (Bloomsbury Publishing)
2020 2020:
Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove
by Christy Hale (Children’s Book Press)
2019 2019:
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
by Claire Hartfield (Clarion Books)
2019 2019:
America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience from A to Z
by Wendy Ewald (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
2019 2019:
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers)
2019 2019:
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
by Janet Halfmann (Lee & Low Books)
2019 2019:
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom
by Gary D. Schmidt (Roaring Brook Press)
2019 2019:
The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
by Mélina Mangal (Millbrook Press)
2018 2018:
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (Heyday)
2018 2018:
Martin’s Dream Day
by Kitty Kelley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
2018 2018:
Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery
by Ray Anthony Shepard (Calkins Creek)
2018 2018:
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Candlewick Press)
2018 2018:
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
by Cynthia Levinson (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
2018 2018:
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
by Larry Dane Brimner (Calkins Creek)
2017 2017:
Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
by Gretchen Woelfle (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
2017 2017:
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (Top Shelf Productions)
2017 2017:
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service
by Annette Bay Pimentel (Charlesbridge)
2017 2017:
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
by Donna Janell Bowman (Lee & Low Books)
2017 2017:
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
by Susan E. Goodman (Bloomsbury USA Children's Books)
2017 2017:
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
by Linda Barrett Osborne (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
2016 2016:
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from Slavery
by Winifred Conkling (Algonquin Books)
2016 2016:
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
by Don Tate (Peachtree Publishers)
2016 2016:
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama
by Hester Bass (Candlewick Press)
2016 2016:
Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty (Captured History)
by Michael Burgan (Compass Point Books)
2016 2016:
Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People
by S.D. Nelson (Harry N. Abrams)
2016 2016:
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
by Chris Barton (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
2015 2015:
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
by Susan Goldman Rubin (Holiday House)
2015 2015:
Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America
by Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books)
2015 2015:
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams Books)
2015 2015:
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
by Teri Kanefield (Abrams Books)
2015 2015:
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press)
2014 2014:
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln And The Dawn Of Liberty
by Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books)
2014 2014:
Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
by Anne F. Rockwell (Carolrhoda Books)
2013 2013:
Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
by Jabari Asim (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
2013 2013:
Harlem’s Little Blackbird
by Renée Watson (Random House Books for Young Readers)
2013 2013:
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 (National Geographic Children’s Books)
2013 2013:
Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man
by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin (National Geographic Children’s Books)
2012 2012:
A Nation’s Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
by Matt De La Peña (Dial Books for Young Readers)
2012 2012:
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor
by Larry Dane Brimner (Calkins Creek)
2012 2012:
Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)
by Susan Goldman Rubin (Charlesbridge)
2012 2012:
Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
by Q. L. Pearce and Gina Capaldi (Millbrook Press)
2012 2012:
Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown (Henry Holt & Company (BYR))
2011 2011:
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
by Elaine Marie Alphin (Carolrhoda Books)
2011 2011:
Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
2011 2011:
Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till
by Simeon Wright and Herb Boyd (Chicago Review Press)
2011 2011:
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
2010 2010:
Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement)
by Clifford W. Mills (Chelsea House Publications)
2010 2010:
Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)
2010 2010:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2010 2010:
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
by Ann Bausum (National Geographic Children’s Books)
2010 2010:
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
by Paula Yoo (Lee & Low Books)
2010 2010:
With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians
by Nancy Plain (Mondo Publishing)
2009 2009:
A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
by Gina Capaldi (Carolrhoda Books)
2009 2009:
Booker T. Washington and Education
by John F. Wukovits (Lucent Books)
2009 2009:
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt & Company (BYR))
2009 2009:
Reaching Out
by Francisco Jiménez (HMH Books for Young Readers)
2009 2009:
The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History)
by James Haskins (Cavendish Square Publishing)
2009 2009:
When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime)
by Robert H. Mayer (Enslow Publishing)
2008 2008:
Black and White Airmen: Their True History
by John Fleischman (HMH Books for Young Readers)
2008 2008:
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man
by Vincent Collin Beach and Anni Beach (Five Star Publications, Inc)
2008 2008:
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
by Bill Wise (Lee & Low Books)
2008 2008:
Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of Jazz
by Leslie Gourse (Dutton Juvenile)
2008 2008:
Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
by Ellie Crowe (Lee & Low Books)
2008 2008:
United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones)
by Susan Dudley Gold (Cavendish Square Publishing)
2007 2007:
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference
by Joanne Oppenheim (Scholastic Nonfiction)
2007 2007:
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
2007 2007:
Gordon Parks: No Excuses
by Ann Parr (Pelican Publishing Company)
2007 2007:
Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community
by David Hassler (Kent State University Press)
2007 2007:
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
by Kathleen Benson (Lee & Low Books)
2007 2007:
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America
by Deborah Hopkinson (Scholastic Inc)
2006 2006:
Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers (Latino Biography Library)
by Barbara C. Cruz (Enslow Publishing)
2006 2006:
Let Them Play (True Story)
by Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison (Sleeping Bear Press)
2006 2006:
No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement
by Calvin Craig Miller (Morgan Reynolds Publishing)
2006 2006:
Roberto Clemente: Baseball’s Humanitarian Hero (Trailblazer Biographies)
by Heron Marquez (Carolrhoda Books)
2006 2006:
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates
by Jonah Winter (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
2006 2006:
Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters)
by John Duggle (Morgan Reynolds Publishing)
2005 2005:
Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series)
by Mildred Pitts Walter (Vermont Folklife Center)
2005 2005:
Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies (Enslow))
by Barbara C. Cruz (Enslow Publishing)
2005 2005:
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path
by Joseph Bruchac (Lee & Low Books)
2005 2005:
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History)
by Robert H. Mayer (Greenhaven Publishing)
2005 2005:
The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors)
by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin (Clarion Books)
2005 2005:
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
2004 2004:
Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers)
by Martha E. Rhynes (Morgan Reynolds Publishing)
2004 2004:
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
by Kathleen Krull (HMH Books for Young Readers)
2004 2004:
History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series)
by James Tackach (Greenhaven Publishing)
2004 2004:
In America’s Shadow
by Kimberly Komatsu, Kaleigh Komatsu, and Mitchell T. Maki (Thomas George Books)
2004 2004:
Sacagawea
by Liselotte Erdrich and Julie Buffalohead (Carolrhoda Books)
2004 2004:
Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))
by Mary Butler (Rosen Publishing)
2003 2003:
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson
by Michelle Y Green (Perfection Learning)
2003 2003:
Atlas of Asian-American History (Facts on File Library of American History)
by Monique Avakian (Facts On File)
2003 2003:
Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia
by Richard Griswold del Castillo (Piñata Books)
2003 2003:
Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp
by Michael L. Cooper (Clarion Books)
2003 2003:
The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases)
by Harvey Fireside (Enslow Publishing)
2003 2003:
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History)
by Cathy Moore (Carolrhoda Books)
2002 2002:
Children of the Civil Rights Era
by Catherine A. Welch (Carolrhoda Books)
2002 2002:
Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter
by Nanette Mellage, Cornelius Van Wright, and Ying-Hwa Hu (Troll Communications)
2002 2002:
Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song
by Katherine E. Krohn (Twenty-First Century Books)
2002 2002:
Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback))
by Laura Baskes Litwin and Luara Baskes Litwin (Enslow Publishing)
2002 2002:
Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity (Hot Issues)
by Barbara C. Cruz (Enslow Publishing)
2002 2002:
Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier
by Alice Hinkle (Pleasant Mountain Press)
2001 2001:
Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History
by James Haskins (Millbrook Press)
2001 2001:
Children of the Relocation Camps (Picture the American Past)
by Catherine A. Welch (Carolrhoda Books)
2001 2001:
Issues in Racism
by Mary E. Williams (Lucent Books)
2001 2001:
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Gulliver Books)
2001 2001:
Sitting Bull and His World
by Albert Marrin (Dutton Juvenile)
2001 2001:
The Sound That Jazz Makes
by Carole Boston Weatherford (Walker Childrens)
2000 2000:
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic Press)
2000 2000:
Children of the Tlingit (World’s Children)
by Frank J. Staub (Carolrhoda Books)
2000 2000:
Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas (English and Spanish Edition)
by Carmen Lomas Garza (Children’s Book Press)
2000 2000:
Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit)
by Sharon Linnea (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
2000 2000:
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
by Richard Wormser (St. Martin’s Press)
2000 2000:
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges (Scholastic Press)
1999 1999:
Celebrating Chinese New Year
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
1999 1999:
Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble
by Rinna Evelyn Wolfe (Silver Burdett Pr)
1999 1999:
Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Way People Live)
by Diane Yancey (Lucent Books)
1999 1999:
Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
by John Duggleby (Chronicle Books)
1999 1999:
The Riches of Oseola McCarty
by Evelyn Coleman (Albert Whitman & Company)
1999 1999:
Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a Difference
by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic Inc)
1998 1998:
Buffalo Days
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
1998 1998:
I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
by Rosa Parks and James Haskins (Penguin Young Readers Group)
1998 1998:
Langston Hughes
by Milton Meltzer (Millbrook Press)
1998 1998:
Leon’s Story
by Leon Walter Tillage (Square Fish)
1998 1998:
Slavery Time When I Was Chillun
by Belinda Hurmence (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
1998 1998:
The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa
by Doreen Rappaport (Dial)
1998 1998:
The Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography)
by Angela S. Medearis (Dutton Juvenile)
1997 1997:
Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance
by James Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson (Wiley)
1997 1997:
Celebrating Hanukkah
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
1997 1997:
Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet
by Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli (Enslow Publishing)
1997 1997:
Ramadan
by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi (Holiday House)
1997 1997:
The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom Diary
by George W. Chilcoat and Michael O. Tunnell (Holiday House)
1997 1997:
The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums)
by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler (Oxford University Press)
1997 1997:
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
by Russell Freedman and Amos Bad Heart Bull (Holiday House)
1997 1997:
The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II
by Jacqueline L. Harris (Dillon Press)
1996 1996:
A Fence Away From Freedom
by Ellen S. Levine (Putnam Juvenile)
1996 1996:
Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American Girl
by Tricia Brown (Henry Holt & Company (BYR))
1996 1996:
Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War Ii
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Walker Childrens)
1996 1996:
Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave (We Are Still Here)
by Monty Roessel (Lerner Publishing Group)
1995 1995:
Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States
by Roger Echo-Hawk and Walter R. Echo-Hawk (Lerner Publishing Group)
1995 1995:
Dear Benjamin Banneker
by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Gulliver Books)
1995 1995:
Harriet
by Norma Johnston (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
1995 1995:
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans)
by Mary E. Lyons (Atheneum)
1995 1995:
Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Young Reader’s Hist- Civil War)
by Zak Mettger (Dutton Juvenile)
1995 1995:
What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies)
by Jeri Ferris (Carolrhoda Books)
1994 1994:
Celebrating Kwanzaa
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
1994 1994:
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)
by Virginia Hamilton (Alfred A. Knopf)
1994 1994:
Sequoyah’s Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader
by Janet Klausner (HarperCollins Publishers)
1994 1994:
Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans)
by Mary E. Lyons (Atheneum)
1994 1994:
The Great Migration: An American Story
by Jacob Lawrence (Perfection Learning)
1994 1994:
The March on Washington
by James Haskins (Harpercollins Childrens Books)
1993 1993:
Hoang Anh A Vietnamese-American Boy
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Harcourt Children’s Books)
1993 1993:
How My Family Lives in America
by Susan Kuklin (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
1993 1993:
Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans)
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Enslow Publishing)
1993 1993:
Mississippi Challenge
by Mildred Pitts Walter (Bradbury Press)
1993 1993:
The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Beatrice Siegel (Simon & Schuster)
1993 1993:
Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice
by James Haskins (Henry Holt & Company (BYR))
1992 1992:
Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series)
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Enslow Publishing)
1992 1992:
Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies)
by Jeri Ferris (Carolrhoda Books)
1992 1992:
Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad)
1992 1992:
Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions
by James Haskins (Walker and Company)
1992 1992:
Pueblo Storyteller
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
1992 1992:
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’I
by Fay Stanley (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
1991 1991:
Breaking the Chains
by David Katz (Atheneum)
1991 1991:
Hector lives in the United States now: The story of a Mexican-American child
by Joan Hewett (J. B. Lippincott)
1991 1991:
Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman
by Catherine Scheader (Enslow Publishing)
1991 1991:
Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston
by Mary E. Lyons (Atheneum)
1991 1991:
Teammates
by Peter Golenbock (HMH Books for Young Readers)
1991 1991:
W.E.B. Dubois (Impact Biographies Series)
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Franklin Watts)
1990 1990:
A Long Hard Journey: The Story Of The Pullman Porter
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Walker Childrens)
1990 1990:
Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson (Trailblazer Biographies)
by Jeri Ferris (Carolrhoda Books)
1990 1990:
In Two Worlds: A Yu’pik Eskimo Family
by Aylette Jenness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
1990 1990:
New Kids In Town: Oral Histories Of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic Biography)
by Janet Bode (Scholastic Inc)
1990 1990:
Paul Robeson: Hero Before His Time (Biographies)
by Rebecca Larsen (Franklin Watts)
1990 1990:
Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories)
by Corinn Codye (Heinemann Library)
1989 1989:
Buffalo Hunt
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
1989 1989:
Hispanic Voters: A Voice in American Politics
by Judith Harlan (Franklin Watts)
1989 1989:
Marian Anderson
by Charles Patterson (iUniverse)
1989 1989:
Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
by Joseph Moore (Praeger Publishers)
1989 1989:
Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth (Creative Minds Biography)
by Jeri Ferris (Carolrhoda Books)
1988 1988:
American Indians Today: Issues and Conflicts (Impact Books Series)
by Judith Harlan (Franklin Watts)
1988 1988:
Black music in America: A history through its people
by James Haskins (Thomas Y. Crowell Co.)
1988 1988:
Into a strange land: Unaccompanied refugee youth in America
by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
1988 1988:
You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks
by Sara Brooks (W. W. Norton & Company)
1987 1987:
Children of the Maya
by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
1987 1987:
Happily May I Walk: American Indians and Alaska Natives Today
by Arlene Hirschfelder (Scribner Book Company)
1987 1987:
Living in Two Worlds
by Maxine B. Rosenberg and George Ancona (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books)
1986 1986:
Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America
by Brent K. Ashabranner (Linnet Books)
1986 1986:
Racial Prejudice (Issues in American History)
by Elaine Pascoe (Franklin Watts)
1985 1985:
Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (Women of Our Time)
by David A. Adler (Viking Juvenile)
1985 1985:
To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today
by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
1984 1984:
Mexico and the United States: Their Linked Destinies
by Ernest Barksdale Fincher (Harper & Row)
1983 1983:
Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne Indians and America’s Energy Crisis
by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
1982 1982:
Coming to North America: From Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico
by Susan Garver and Paula McGuire (Delacorte Press)
1981 1981:
The Chinese Americans
by Milton Meltzer (HarperCollins)
1981 1981:
The Hardest Lesson: Personal Accounts of a School Desegregation Crisis
by Judith Stoia and Pamela Bullard (Little, Brown and Company)
1980 1980:
A cry from the earth: Music of the North American Indians
by John Bierhorst (Four Winds Press)
1980 1980:
James Van Derzee: The Picture-Takin’ Man
by James Haskins (Dodd, Mead and Company)
1980 1980:
War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians
by Nancy Wood (Doubleday)
1979 1979:
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition
by Peter Nabokov (Penguin Books)
1978 1978:
Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies)
by Jane Goodsell and Haru Wells (HarperCollins)
1977 1977:
The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction
by Dorothy Sterling (Doubleday)
1976 1976:
Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles (Prebound))
by Laurence Yep (Perfection Learning)
1975 1975:
Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America)
by Jesse Jackson (Harper & Row)
1974 1974:
Rosa Parks
by Eloise Greenfield (HarperCollins)