Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books

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

Cover for Alec’s Primer (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series)Cover for Cesar Chavez: The Struggle for Justice / Cesar Chavez: La lucha por la justiciaCover for War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute IndiansCover for The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp: Based on a Classroom DiaryCover for Lincoln and Douglass: An American FriendshipCover for Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord! the Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers (Women of America)Cover for The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights ActivistCover for The Life and Death of Crazy HorseCover for In America’s ShadowCover for Atlas of Asian-American History (Facts on File Library of American History)Cover for James Van Derzee: The Picture-Takin’ ManCover for Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of SongCover for The Amazing Age of John Roy LynchCover for Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His PeopleCover for Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)Cover for Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas (English and Spanish Edition)Cover for Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from SlaveryCover for The Chinese AmericansCover for The Riches of Oseola McCartyCover for Black Stars of the Harlem RenaissanceCover for Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))Cover for Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In AmericaCover for Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a DifferenceCover for Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to PeaceCover for Black music in America: A history through its peopleCover for Thurgood Marshall: A Life for JusticeCover for William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground RailroadCover for Fifty Cents And A Dream: Young Booker T. WashingtonCover for Story Painter: The Life of Jacob LawrenceCover for Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans)Cover for The March on WashingtonCover for Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers (Latino Biography Library)Cover for Rosa ParksCover for With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce IndiansCover for Harlem’s Little BlackbirdCover for Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire (Famous African Americans)Cover for Women of Hope: African-Americans Who Made a DifferenceCover for Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on WashingtonCover for Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park ServiceCover for Black and White Airmen: Their True HistoryCover for Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put “Black” in American HistoryCover for Slavery Time When I Was ChillunCover for Breaking the ChainsCover for An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo FrankCover for Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection)Cover for Children of the Civil Rights EraCover for Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters)Cover for Children of the Tlingit (World’s Children)Cover for The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal RightsCover for Jim Thorpe’s Bright PathCover for Reaching OutCover for The Sound That Jazz MakesCover for Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret SchoolCover for Racial Prejudice (Issues in American History)Cover for Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and ActivistCover for Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for FreedomCover for Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about KindnessCover for Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United StatesCover for Martin’s Dream DayCover for When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime)Cover for This Land Is Our Land: A History of American ImmigrationCover for Gordon Parks: No ExcusesCover for Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. MarshalCover for Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet from Chicago (World Writers)Cover for The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums)Cover for Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement)Cover for Leon’s StoryCover for Sitting Bull and His WorldCover for The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors)Cover for Children of the Relocation Camps (Picture the American Past)Cover for A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” JohnsonCover for Maya Angelou: More Than a PoetCover for Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black ManCover for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar ChavezCover for We Are Not BrokenCover for Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale HurstonCover for Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeCover for Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a CityCover for In Two Worlds: A Yu’pik Eskimo FamilyCover for Edmonia Lewis: Wildfire in MarbleCover for SacagaweaCover for Outward Dreams: Black Inventors and Their InventionsCover for The Trouble They Seen: Black People Tell the Story of ReconstructionCover for The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. PayneCover for To Live in Two Worlds: American Indian Youth TodayCover for United States V. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny (Supreme Court Milestones)Cover for Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories)Cover for Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip FreelonCover for Dragonwings (Golden Mountain Chronicles (Prebound))Cover for A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919Cover for Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiCover for Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance (African-American Biographies (Enslow))Cover for Daniel Inouye (Crowell Biographies)Cover for Pueblo StorytellerCover for Justin and the Best Biscuits in the WorldCover for Mississippi ChallengeCover for Red-Tail Angels: The Story Of The Tuskegee Airmen Of World War IiCover for Dark Harvest: Migrant Farmworkers in AmericaCover for Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth (Creative Minds Biography)Cover for Fred Korematsu Speaks UpCover for Marian AndersonCover for Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of JazzCover for Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball PioneerCover for Black Heroes of the Wild WestCover for A Fence Away From FreedomCover for New Kids In Town: Oral Histories Of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic Biography)Cover for March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)Cover for Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)Cover for Let Them Play (True Story)Cover for A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American HeroCover for The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War IICover for A Nation’s Hope: the Story of Boxing Legend Joe LouisCover for Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation CampCover for A Long Hard Journey: The Story Of The Pullman PorterCover for Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961Cover for The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (At Issue in History)Cover for You May Plow Here - the Narrative of Sara BrooksCover for America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience from A to ZCover for Buffalo HuntCover for The Rise and Fall of Jim CrowCover for A cry from the earth: Music of the North American IndiansCover for So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward FreedomCover for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward JusticeCover for John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights MovementCover for Schomburg: The Man Who Built a LibraryCover for Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series)Cover for I Color Myself DifferentCover for The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil RightsCover for Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (African-American Artists and Artisans)Cover for Children of the MayaCover for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race MassacreCover for HarrietCover for Through My EyesCover for Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot BoxCover for I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)Cover for Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American ImmigrationCover for Booker T. Washington and EducationCover for Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War (Young Reader’s Hist- Civil War)Cover for Celebrating KwanzaaCover for Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run HitterCover for Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth AmendmentCover for Living in Two WorldsCover for Issues in RacismCover for RamadanCover for History Firsthand - Early Black Reformers (History Firsthand Series)Cover for Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American RevolutionCover for What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom FightersCover for Hoang Anh A Vietnamese-American BoyCover for The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History)Cover for Sequoyah’s Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee LeaderCover for Multiethnic Teens and Cultural Identity (Hot Issues)Cover for Paul Robeson: Hero Before His Time (Biographies)Cover for Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End SlaveryCover for Shining Star: The Anna May Wong StoryCover for Dear Benjamin BannekerCover for Princess Ka’iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People (Women of Spirit)Cover for The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus BoycottCover for Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American WhalersCover for The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline Court Cases)Cover for TeammatesCover for Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir (Women of Our Time)Cover for Until Someone Listens: A Story about Borders, Family, and One Girl’s MissionCover for Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In AmericaCover for Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))Cover for Prince Estabrook, Slave and SoldierCover for Buffalo DaysCover for How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling BeeCover for Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln And The Dawn Of LibertyCover for Dave The Potter: Artist, Poet, SlaveCover for Matthew Henson: Co-Discoverer of the North Pole (African-American Biographies (Raintree Paperback))Cover for Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses HortonCover for Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh PiratesCover for This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School EqualityCover for Because of You, John LewisCover for Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty (Captured History)Cover for The UndefeatedCover for The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on TrialCover for Celebrating Chinese New YearCover for Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, AlabamaCover for The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights MovementCover for Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke KahanamokuCover for No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights MovementCover for Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for The Rise of Jim Crow (Drama of African-American History)Cover for Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage BandCover for Mexico and the United States: Their Linked DestiniesCover for The Great Migration: An American StoryCover for Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave (We Are Still Here)Cover for Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final HoursCover for Langston HughesCover for Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American GirlCover for The Princess of the Press: The Story of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Rainbow Biography)Cover for Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000, Revised EditionCover for Carter Reads the NewspaperCover for Hector lives in the United States now: The story of a Mexican-American childCover for Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for DesegregationCover for Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account Of The Kidnapping Of Emmett TillCover for Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne Indians and America’s Energy CrisisCover for Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” ConnorCover for The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett JustCover for Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp (Way People Live)Cover for Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in AmericaCover for Celebrating HanukkahCover for The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-SaCover for W.E.B. Dubois (Impact Biographies Series)Cover for Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant CommunityCover for Doll Test: Choosing EqualityCover for How My Family Lives in AmericaCover for The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’Iulani of Hawai’ICover for Todos Iguales / All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove / A Ballad of Lemon GroveCover for Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting DownCover for Roberto Clemente: Baseball’s Humanitarian Hero (Trailblazer Biographies)Cover for Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man