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

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    2021 y: Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith (Toon Graphics)
    2021 y: Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons (Lee & Low Books)
    2021 y: Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne (Viking Books for Young Readers)
    2021 y: The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Paula Wiseman Books)
    2020 y: Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson (Peachtree Publishers)
    2020 y: The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander (Versify)
    2020 y: 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 y: Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove by Christy Hale (Children’s Book Press)
    2019 y: A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield (Clarion Books)
    2019 y: America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience from A to Z by Wendy Ewald (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
    2019 y: Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers)
    2019 y: Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School by Janet Halfmann (Lee & Low Books)
    2019 y: So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary D. Schmidt (Roaring Brook Press)
    2019 y: The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just by Mélina Mangal (Millbrook Press)
    2018 y: Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi (Heyday)
    2018 y: Martin’s Dream Day by Kitty Kelley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
    2018 y: Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery by Ray Anthony Shepard (Calkins Creek)
    2018 y: Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford (Candlewick Press)
    2018 y: The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
    2018 y: Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner (Calkins Creek)
    2017 y: Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
    2017 y: March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (Top Shelf Productions)
    2017 y: Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness by Donna Janell Bowman (Lee & Low Books)
    2017 y: The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial by Susan E. Goodman (Bloomsbury USA Childrens)
    2017 y: This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
    2016 y: Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate (Peachtree Publishers)
    2016 y: Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama by Hester Bass (Candlewick Press)
    2016 y: Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People by S.D. Nelson (Harry N. Abrams)
    2016 y: The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
    2015 y: Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by Susan Goldman Rubin (Holiday House)
    2015 y: Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America by Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books)
    2015 y: The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press)
    2014 y: Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln And The Dawn Of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books)
    2014 y: Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band by Anne F. Rockwell (Carolrhoda Books)
    2013 y: Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
    2013 y: Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson (Random House Books for Young Readers)
    2013 y: 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 y: A Nation’s Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis by Matt De La Peña (Dial Books for Young Readers)
    2012 y: Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection) by Susan Goldman Rubin (Charlesbridge)
    2012 y: Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist by Q. L. Pearce and Gina Capaldi (Millbrook Press)
    2011 y: An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin (Carolrhoda Books)
    2011 y: Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
    2011 y: Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till by Simeon Wright and Herb Boyd (Chicago Review Press)
    2011 y: Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
    2010 y: Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement) by Clifford W. Mills (Chelsea House Publications)
    2010 y: Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (Carolrhoda Books)
    2010 y: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
    2010 y: Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (National Geographic Children’s Books)
    2010 y: Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo (Lee & Low Books)
    2009 y: Booker T. Washington and Education by John F. Wukovits (Lucent Books)
    2009 y: Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt & Company (BYR))
    2009 y: Reaching Out by Francisco Jiménez (HMH Books for Young Readers)
    2009 y: The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History) by James Haskins (Cavendish Square Publishing)
    2009 y: When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime) by Robert H. Mayer (Enslow Publishing)
    2008 y: Black and White Airmen: Their True History by John Fleischman (HMH Books for Young Readers)
    2008 y: 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 y: Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Wise (Lee & Low Books)
    2008 y: Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of Jazz by Leslie Gourse (Dutton Juvenile)
    2008 y: Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku by Ellie Crowe (Lee & Low Books)
    2008 y: United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones) by Susan Dudley Gold (Cavendish Square Publishing)
    2007 y: Gordon Parks: No Excuses by Ann Parr (Pelican Publishing)
    2007 y: Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community by David Hassler (Kent State University Press)
    2007 y: John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement by Kathleen Benson (Lee & Low Books)
    2007 y: Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America by Deborah Hopkinson (Scholastic Inc)
    2006 y: Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers (Latino Biography Library) by Barbara C. Cruz (Enslow Publishing)
    2006 y: Let Them Play (True Story) by Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison (Sleeping Bear Press)
    2006 y: No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller (Morgan Reynolds Publishing)
    2006 y: Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
    2006 y: Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters) by John Duggle (Morgan Reynolds Publishing)
    2005 y: Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series) by Mildred Pitts Walter (Vermont Folklife Center)
    2005 y: Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac (Lee & Low Books)
    2005 y: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History) by Robert H. Mayer (Greenhaven Publishing)
    2005 y: The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors) by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin (Clarion Books)
    2004 y: Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers) by Martha E. Rhynes (Morgan Reynolds Publishing)
    2004 y: Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull (HMH Books for Young Readers)
    2004 y: History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series) by James Tackach (Greenhaven Publishing)
    2004 y: In America’s Shadow by Kimberly Komatsu, Kaleigh Komatsu, and Mitchell T. Maki (Thomas George Books)
    2004 y: Sacagawea by Liselotte Erdrich and Julie Buffalohead (Carolrhoda Books)
    2003 y: A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson by Michelle Y Green (Perfection Learning)
    2003 y: Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia by Richard Griswold del Castillo (Piñata Books)
    2003 y: Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper (Clarion Books)
    2003 y: The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History) by Cathy Moore (Carolrhoda Books)
    2002 y: Children of the Civil Rights Era by Catherine A. Welch (Carolrhoda Books)
    2002 y: 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 y: Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song by Katherine E Krohn (Twenty-First Century Books)
    2002 y: Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback)) by Laura Baskes Litwin and Luara Baskes Litwin (Enslow Publishing)
    2002 y: Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity (Hot Issues) by Barbara C. Cruz (Enslow Publishing)
    2002 y: Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier by Alice Hinkle (Pleasant Mountain Press)
    2001 y: Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History by James Haskins (Millbrook Press)
    2001 y: Children of the Relocation Camps (Picture the American Past) by Catherine A. Welch (Carolrhoda Books)
    2001 y: Issues in Racism by Mary E. Williams (Lucent Books)
    2001 y: Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Gulliver Books)
    2001 y: Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin (Dutton Juvenile)
    2001 y: The Sound That Jazz Makes by Carole Boston Weatherford (Walker Childrens)
    2000 y: Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic Press)
    2000 y: Children of the Tlingit (World’s Children) by Frank J. Staub (Carolrhoda Books)
    2000 y: Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas (English and Spanish Edition) by Carmen Lomas Garza (Children’s Book Press)
    2000 y: Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit) by Sharon Linnea (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers)
    2000 y: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow by Richard Wormser (St. Martin’s Press)
    2000 y: Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges (Scholastic Press)
    1999 y: Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
    1999 y: Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble by Rinna Evelyn Wolfe (Silver Burdett Pr)
    1999 y: Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Way People Live) by Diane Yancey (Lucent Books)
    1999 y: Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence by John Duggleby (Chronicle Books)
    1999 y: The Riches of Oseola McCarty by Evelyn Coleman (Albert Whitman & Company)
    1999 y: Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a Difference by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic Inc)
    1998 y: Buffalo Days by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
    1998 y: I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins (Penguin Young Readers Group)
    1998 y: Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer (Millbrook Press)
    1998 y: Leon’s Story by Leon Walter Tillage (Square Fish)
    1998 y: Slavery Time When I Was Chillun by Belinda Hurmence (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
    1998 y: The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa by Doreen Rappaport (Dial)
    1997 y: Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance by James Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson (Wiley)
    1997 y: Celebrating Hanukkah by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
    1997 y: Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet by Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli (Enslow Publishing)
    1997 y: Ramadan by Suhaib Hamid Ghazi (Holiday House)
    1997 y: 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 y: The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums) by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler (Oxford University Press)
    1997 y: The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman and Amos Bad Heart Bull (Holiday House)
    1997 y: The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II by Jacqueline L. Harris (Dillon Press)
    1996 y: A Fence Away From Freedom by Ellen S. Levine (Putnam Juvenile)
    1996 y: Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American Girl by Tricia Brown (Henry Holt & Company (BYR))
    1996 y: Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War Ii by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Walker Childrens)
    1996 y: Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave (We Are Still Here) by Monty Roessel (Lerner Publishing Group)
    1995 y: 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 y: Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Gulliver Books)
    1995 y: Harriet by Norma Johnston (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
    1994 y: Celebrating Kwanzaa by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
    1994 y: Sequoyah’s Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader by Janet Klausner (HarperCollins Publishers)
    1994 y: The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence (Perfection Learning)
    1994 y: The March on Washington by James Haskins (Harpercollins Childrens Books)
    1993 y: Hoang Anh A Vietnamese-American Boy by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Harcourt Children’s Books)
    1993 y: How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
    1993 y: Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Enslow Publishing)
    1993 y: Mississippi Challenge by Mildred Pitts Walter (Bradbury Press)
    1993 y: The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Beatrice Siegel (Simon & Schuster)
    1993 y: Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice by James Haskins (Henry Holt & Company (BYR))
    1992 y: Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Enslow Publishing)
    1992 y: Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad)
    1992 y: Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions by James Haskins (Walker and Company)
    1992 y: Pueblo Storyteller by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday House)
    1992 y: The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’I by Fay Stanley (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
    1991 y: Breaking the Chains by David Katz (Atheneum)
    1991 y: Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman by Catherine Scheader (Enslow Publishing)
    1991 y: Teammates by Peter Golenbock (HMH Books for Young Readers)
    1991 y: W.E.B. Dubois (Impact Biographies Series) by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Franklin Watts)
    1990 y: A Long Hard Journey: The Story Of The Pullman Porter by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack (Walker Childrens)
    1990 y: In Two Worlds: A Yu’pik Eskimo Family by Aylette Jenness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
    1990 y: Paul Robeson: Hero Before His Time (Biographies) by Rebecca Larsen (Franklin Watts)
    1990 y: Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories) by Corinn Codye (Heinemann Library)
    1989 y: Buffalo Hunt by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
    1989 y: Hispanic Voters: A Voice in American Politics by Judith Harlan (Franklin Watts)
    1989 y: Marian Anderson by Charles Patterson (iUniverse)
    1988 y: American Indians Today: Issues and Conflicts (Impact Books Series) by Judith Harlan (Franklin Watts)
    1988 y: Black music in America: A history through its people by James Haskins (Thomas Y. Crowell Co.)
    1988 y: Into a strange land: Unaccompanied refugee youth in America by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
    1988 y: You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks by Sara Brooks (W. W. Norton & Company)
    1987 y: Children of the Maya by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
    1987 y: Happily May I Walk: American Indians and Alaska Natives Today by Arlene Hirschfelder (Scribner)
    1987 y: Living in Two Worlds by Maxine B. Rosenberg and George Ancona (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books)
    1986 y: Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America by Brent K. Ashabranner (Linnet Books)
    1986 y: Racial Prejudice (Issues in American History) by Elaine Pascoe (Franklin Watts)
    1985 y: Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (Women of Our Time) by David A. Adler (Viking Juvenile)
    1985 y: To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
    1984 y: Mexico and the United States: Their Linked Destinies by Ernest Barksdale Fincher (Harper & Row)
    1983 y: Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne Indians and America’s Energy Crisis by Brent K. Ashabranner (Dodd, Mead and Company)
    1982 y: Coming to North America: From Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico by Susan Garver and Paula McGuire (Delacorte Press)
    1981 y: The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer (HarperCollins)
    1981 y: The Hardest Lesson: Personal Accounts of a School Desegregation Crisis by Judith Stoia and Pamela Bullard (Little, Brown and Company)
    1980 y: A cry from the earth: Music of the North American Indians by John Bierhorst (Four Winds Press)
    1980 y: James Van Derzee: The Picture-Takin’ Man by James Haskins (Dodd, Mead and Company)
    1978 y: Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies) by Jane Goodsell and Haru Wells (HarperCollins)
    1976 y: Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles (Prebound)) by Laurence Yep (Perfection Learning)
    1974 y: Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield (HarperCollins)