All 212 Carter G. Woodson Award Winning and Honored Books for Since 1970
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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 Childrens)
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)
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 Jim 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)
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)