Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books

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

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