Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books

A visual history of excellence in multicultural literature. — View List by Year —

Cover for Hector lives in the United States now: The story of a Mexican-American child

Cover for Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln And The Dawn Of Liberty

Cover for Because of You, John Lewis

Cover for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

Cover for Leon’s Story

Cover for Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist

Cover for Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School

Cover for Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Cover for Living in Two Worlds

Cover for Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement)

Cover for The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom Diary

Cover for Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor

Cover for History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series)

Cover for How My Family Lives in America

Cover for Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal

Cover for The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases)

Cover for Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson (Trailblazer Biographies)

Cover for Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave

Cover for William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad

Cover for Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours

Cover for Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer

Cover for The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa

Cover for A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Cover for Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America)

Cover for Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies)

Cover for Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)

Cover for Until Someone Listens: A Story about Borders, Family, and One Girl’s Mission

Cover for Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment

Cover for Issues in Racism

Cover for Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

Cover for When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime)

Cover for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Cover for Black music in America: A history through its people

Cover for Children of the Tlingit (World’s Children)

Cover for The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

Cover for Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Way People Live)

Cover for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of Reconstruction

Cover for Martin’s Dream Day

Cover for Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American History

Cover for Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington

Cover for Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

Cover for John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement

Cover for Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Cover for Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community

Cover for In America’s Shadow

Cover for Harlem’s Little Blackbird

Cover for Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference

Cover for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Cover for Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (Women of Our Time)

Cover for Mississippi Challenge

Cover for Teammates

Cover for Sitting Bull and His World

Cover for Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters)

Cover for Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961

Cover for Carter Reads the Newspaper

Cover for Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon

Cover for The March on Washington

Cover for Dear Benjamin Banneker

Cover for Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path

Cover for Atlas of Asian-American History (Facts on File Library of American History)

Cover for Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

Cover for The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History)

Cover for What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies)

Cover for The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Cover for Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston

Cover for Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from Slavery

Cover for This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

Cover for Rosa Parks

Cover for Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance

Cover for Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of Jazz

Cover for Doll Test: Choosing Equality

Cover for Magic Windows/Ventanas mÃ¡gicas (English and Spanish Edition)

Cover for Hoang Anh A Vietnamese-American Boy

Cover for Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier

Cover for Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))

Cover for Children of the Relocation Camps (Picture the American Past)

Cover for Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers (Latino Biography Library)

Cover for Gordon Parks: No Excuses

Cover for Children of the Civil Rights Era

Cover for I Color Myself Different

Cover for Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne Indians and America’s Energy Crisis

Cover for Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in Marble

Cover for The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Cover for To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth Today

Cover for So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom

Cover for The Great Migration: An American Story

Cover for The Chinese Americans

Cover for Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American Girl

Cover for Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers

Cover for Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit)

Cover for The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History)

Cover for The Sound That Jazz Makes

Cover for The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just

Cover for A Fence Away From Freedom

Cover for Slavery Time When I Was Chillun

Cover for Buffalo Hunt

Cover for The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

Cover for Paul Robeson: Hero Before His Time (Biographies)

Cover for Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

Cover for Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service

Cover for Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates

Cover for Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)

Cover for Buffalo Days

Cover for Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett Till

Cover for Celebrating Kwanzaa

Cover for Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States

Cover for The Life and Death of Crazy Horse

Cover for Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their Inventions

Cover for The Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography)

Cover for Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song

Cover for Breaking the Chains

Cover for Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers)

Cover for Fred Korematsu Speaks Up

Cover for Ramadan

Cover for The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist

Cover for A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson

Cover for James Van Derzee: The Picture-Takin’ Man

Cover for Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America

Cover for Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans)

Cover for The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne

Cover for The Riches of Oseola McCarty

Cover for With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians

Cover for Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans)

Cover for No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement

Cover for Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justicia

Cover for Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Cover for Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Cover for Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

Cover for Booker T. Washington and Education

Cover for Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War Ii

Cover for You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara Brooks

Cover for Marian Anderson

Cover for Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

Cover for Sequoyah’s Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader

Cover for War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians

Cover for Langston Hughes

Cover for Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story

Cover for The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II

Cover for Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man

Cover for Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity (Hot Issues)

Cover for Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet

Cover for Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

Cover for Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories)

Cover for Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp

Cover for We Are Not Broken

Cover for Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace

Cover for Sacagawea

Cover for Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty (Captured History)

Cover for Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama

Cover for America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience from A to Z

Cover for Reaching Out

Cover for An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank

Cover for Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence

Cover for Black Heroes of the Wild West

Cover for Celebrating Hanukkah

Cover for This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality

Cover for Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth (Creative Minds Biography)

Cover for Celebrating Chinese New Year

Cover for Let Them Play (True Story)

Cover for Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies)

Cover for Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave (We Are Still Here)

Cover for Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in America

Cover for Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon Grove

Cover for Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice

Cover for In Two Worlds: A Yu’pik Eskimo Family

Cover for Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom

Cover for Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

Cover for Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a Difference

Cover for A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero

Cover for Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series)

Cover for Racial Prejudice (Issues in American History)

Cover for Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))

Cover for Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People

Cover for Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback))

Cover for Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation

Cover for Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku

Cover for New Kids In Town: Oral Histories Of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic Biography)

Cover for A Nation’s Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis

Cover for Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Cover for Roberto Clemente: Baseball’s Humanitarian Hero (Trailblazer Biographies)

Cover for A cry from the earth: Music of the North American Indians

Cover for United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones)

Cover for Children of the Maya

Cover for Through My Eyes

Cover for Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series)

Cover for Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised Edition

Cover for Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship

Cover for The Undefeated

Cover for The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

Cover for Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington

Cover for W.E.B. Dubois (Impact Biographies Series)

Cover for Mexico and the United States: Their Linked Destinies

Cover for Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles (Prebound))

Cover for The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors)

Cover for The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’I

Cover for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Cover for Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Young Reader’s Hist- Civil War)

Cover for Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies (Enslow))

Cover for Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America

Cover for Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans)

Cover for Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter

Cover for Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration

Cover for March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)

Cover for The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Cover for Harriet

Cover for Pueblo Storyteller

Cover for The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums)

Cover for A Long Hard Journey: The Story Of The Pullman Porter

Cover for The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History)

Cover for I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)

Cover for How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee

Cover for Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man

Cover for The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Cover for Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)

Cover for Black and White Airmen: Their True History

Reader Comments (0)

Log In to Join the Conversation

Commenting is reserved for registered AALBC members to maintain high-quality discussions.

No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!