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Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation
Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation Rosa Parks 9780310351566 Nonfiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks...
I Am Rosa Parks
I Am Rosa Parks Rosa Parks 9780593432723 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House How special and inspiring to read about Rosa Parks’s life in her own words! This biography...
The Story of Rosa Parks
The Story of Rosa Parks Patricia A. Pingry 9781546034438 Nonfiction Worthy Kids Hachette Book Group Teach little learners about Rosa Parks’ brave stand for civil rights with this 200-word board book. ...
I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
I Am Rosa Parks (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4) Rosa Parks and James Haskins 9780141307107 Nonfiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a...
Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks: My Story Parks, Rosa ; Haskins, James 9780756958268 Nonfiction Perfection Learning Perfection Learning Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated ...
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Eloise Greenfield 9780064420259 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Moment of TruthWhen Rosa Parks was growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, she hated the unfair rules that black people had...
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story Of Rosa Parks
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story Of Rosa Parks Faith Ringgold 9780689856761 Nonfiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named ...
Rosa Parks: My First Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks: My First Rosa Parks Lisbeth Kaiser 9781786032638 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New, in the My First Little People, Big Dreams series: Introduce your littlest...
Rosa Parks: A Little Golden Book Biography
Rosa Parks: A Little Golden Book Biography Shasta Clinch 9780593904442 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Discover the courageous life of Rosa Parks with this historical Little Golden Book, ...
Rosa Parks (Little People, Big Dreams)
Rosa Parks (Little People, Big Dreams) Lisbeth Kaiser 9781786030184 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the incredible li...
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks Jeanne Theoharis 9780807050477 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challe...
History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes
History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes Tracey Baptiste 9781250174222 Nonfiction First Second Macmillan Publishers Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume, l...
Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks: A Who HQ Graphic Novel
Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks: A Who HQ Graphic Novel Insha Fitzpatrick 9780593224472 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Discover the story behind Rosa Parks and th...
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney 9780060821203 Nonfiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney present a poignan...
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Christine Taylor Butler 9780531212097 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white...
I Am Strong: A Little Book about Rosa Parks
I Am Strong: A Little Book about Rosa Parks Brad Meltzer 9780593110102 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Uses Rosa Parks’s life to teach young readers to always stand up for what is right.
I am Rosa Parks
I am Rosa Parks Brad Meltzer 9780803740853 Nonfiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House "We can all be heroes" is the message entertainingly told in this picture-book biography series ...
Rosa
Rosa Nikki Giovanni 9780312376024 Nonfiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the ...
Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts
Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. 9798989142309 Nonfiction Letterform Archive Books Letterform Archive Books Two sets of 20 unique let...
Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement Katheryn Russell-Brown 9780593403549 Nonfiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A celebration of twelve Black wo...
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780547906041 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus ...
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems Rita Dove 9780393320268 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. In thes...
The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Beatrice Siegel 9780027826319 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A study of the Montgomery bus boycott reveals how one w...
The Girl at the Back of the Bus
The Girl at the Back of the Bus Suzette D. Harrison 9781800191747 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture An absolutely heart-wrenching historical novel I watched in awe as Miz Rosa stopped those men on the ...
Dark Testament: And Other Poems
Dark Testament: And Other Poems Pauli Murray 9781631494833 Poetry Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in...
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip Hoose 9780374302368 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers ”It’s my constitutional right!” screamed Claudette Colvin as she was dragge...
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott Carole Boston Weatherford 9780063205291 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From the 2025 Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner, New York Ti...
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington Marcia Chatelain 9780553387254 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Ida B. Wells and the Untold Truth of a Country
Ida B. Wells and the Untold Truth of a Country Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823456239 Nonfiction Holiday House Holiday House In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born into slavery. Today, her legacy lives on as a trai...
Let It Shine!: A Celebration of You
Let It Shine!: A Celebration of You Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593805756 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Box: Henry Brown Mails H...
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing Tara Pringle Jefferson 9780063377875 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates t...
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771507 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Misty Copeland to Rosa Parks to Nina Simone, this picture boo...
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman John Conyers III 9780063336810 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, t...
Stories of the Spirit of Justice
Stories of the Spirit of Justice Jemar Tisby 9780310145592 Nonfiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing New York Times bestselling author Jemar Tisby collects the true, impactful stories o...
Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!
Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! Claudette Colvin and Phillip Hoose 9780374389734 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Civil rights icon Claudette C...
Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism
Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism Barbara A. Holmes 9781506499239 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Activism can often take a toll on social justice seekers, and it is easy to ...
Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush
Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush Patrice Lawrence 9798887770338 Nonfiction Nosy Crow Nosy Crow From Patrice Lawrence, author of Our Story Starts in Africa, named a 2022 Best Book for Kids by th...
My Red, White, and Blue
My Red, White, and Blue Alana Tyson 9780593525708 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House A powerful story about the mixture of pride and pain that one Black family finds in the American flag, and...
Little Black Lives Matter
Little Black Lives Matter Khodi Dill 9781644211878 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes f...
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change Brittney Cooper 9781338763850 Nonfiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From the New York Times, bestselling author of Eloquent Rage comes a powerful, groundb...
Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives
Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black Lives Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey 9781950785810 Nonfiction Hearst Home Hearst Magazines “When we lift every voice, we forge a deep and enduring conne...
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America Al Sharpton 9781335639912 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press Bestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton...
Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Mara Rockliff 9781524720643 Nonfiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House An inspiring picture-book biography about the woman whose ...
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement 1963 (Library Edition)
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement 1963 (Library Edition) Angela Shanté 9781338769807 Nonfiction C. Press/F. Watts Trade C. Press/F. Watts Trade Key events of the Civil Rights Movement will be broug...
Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung
Shining Legacy: Storypoems for the Young, So Black Heroes and Heroines Forever Will Be Sung Nkechi Taifa 9781734769333 Fiction House of Songhay II House of Songhay II This new revised color edition of...
Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: A Black History Book for Kids
Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: A Black History Book for Kids Glenda Armand 9781648764455 Nonfiction Rockridge Press Callisto Publishing Incredible stories of Black civil rights leaders fo...
Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition
Black Power and the American Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition C.T. Vivian 9781506478999 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media In 1970, C. T. Vivian, a close colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a mem...
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror!
Baby Young, Gifted, and Black: With a Mirror! Jamia Wilson 9780711261419 Nonfiction Wide Eyed Editions The Quarto Group "There are so many things I am and can be… There’s a whole world waiting for me....
Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies
Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies Mireille Harper 9780744039092 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House Erased. Ignored. Hidden. Lost. Underappreciate...
Brave. Black. First. 100 Postcards
Brave. Black. First. 100 Postcards Cheryl Willis Hudson 9781984825636 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House 100 Postcards Celebrating More Than 50 African American Women Who Changed the Worl...
Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World
Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World Cheryl Willis Hudson 9780525645818 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Published in collaboration with ...
Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights
Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights Beth Anderson 9781629799391 Fiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press ★ "Anderson’s third-person text allows readers under Li...
Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home
Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home Larry Linwell Rowe 9781733929714 Nonfiction Old Malden Press Old Malden Press Booker T. Washington’s formative years were from 186...
The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9783836571517 Fiction Taschen Taschen First published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America’s so-called “Negro problem.” As remar...
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott Dee Romito 9781499807202 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This stunning picture book looks into the life o...
African-American History Makers Collection: Readers That Grow with You
African-American History Makers Collection: Readers That Grow with You Kitson Jazynka and National Geographic Kids 9781426332012 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Learn about the live...
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement Janet Dewart Bell 9781620973356 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York...
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage Pauli Murray 9781631494581 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murra...
Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present
Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present Jamia Wilson 9781786031587 Nonfiction Wide Eyed Editions The Quarto Group exhuberant…exquisitely designed…a launching point for more...
A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country
A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country Jabari Asim 9780316436427 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Jabari As...
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004 Rita Dove 9780393354935 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language...
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Rachel L. Swarns 9780316552967 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Gro...
The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till Timothy B. Tyson 9781476714844 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, “How many black kids will you kill? Mic...
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345707 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books This souve...
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems: 1974–2004 Rita Dove 9780393285949 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unab...
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road Tavis Smiley 9781401948399 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Stepping into your authentic life can be difficult. There are pitfalls of ego, of ...
Civil Rights For Beginners
Civil Rights For Beginners Paul Von Blum 9781934389898 Nonfiction For Beginners For Beginners A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literat...
Heroes of Black History
Heroes of Black History Bonnie Bader 9780448487663 Nonfiction Grosset & Dunlap Penguin Random House A true hero not only rises to the occasion, but helps others rise with them. Nelson Mandela, Harrie...
Who Was Sojourner Truth?
Who Was Sojourner Truth? Yona Zeldis McDonough 9780448486789 Nonfiction Grosset & Dunlap Penguin Random House Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mi...
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media)
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media) Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872866751 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers "Revolutionary love, re...
The Light Of Truth: Writings Of An Anti-Lynching Crusader
The Light Of Truth: Writings Of An Anti-Lynching Crusader Ida B. Wells 9780143106821 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings availab...
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement Teri Kanefield 9781419707964 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams  Before the Little Rock Nine, before Ro...
People in Black History: Famous African Americans
People in Black History: Famous African Americans Kingsley H. Smith B005FTXREW Nonfiction Kindle Direct Publishing Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Are you searching for facts and information about the l...
The Words of African-American Heroes (Newmarket Words Of Series)
The Words of African-American Heroes (Newmarket Words Of Series) Clara Villarosa 9781557049469 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Celebrating notable African Americans, this inspirational and tho...
Head Off & Split: Poems
Head Off & Split: Poems Nikky Finney 9780810152168 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Winner, 2011 National Book Award for PoetryWinner, 2012 GLCS Award for PoetryWinner, 2012 SIB...
Back of the Bus
Back of the Bus Aaron Reynolds 9780399250910 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House With childlike words and powerful illustrations, Reynolds and Coretta Scott King medalist Cooper recount Rosa P...
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 1
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 1 Latorial Faison 9781495277184 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This first book in the trilogy collection, 28 Days of Poetry, is an ecle...
Acolytes: Poems
Acolytes: Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780061231315 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins A collection of eighty all new poems, Acolytes is distinctly Nikki Giovanni, but different. Not softened, but more insp...
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell 9780767924900 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Ran...
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards)) Russell Freedman 9780823420315 Nonfiction Holiday House Holiday House ...
Chicken Soup For The African American Woman’s Soul (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Woman’s Soul (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Lisa Nichols 9780757305207 Fiction HCI HCI Chicken Soup for the African American W...
African American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic
African American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic Kwando M. Kinshasa 9780313337970 Nonfiction Greenwood Press Greenwood Publishing Group Where were the first African American church...
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration Pearl Cleage 9780345490278 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power...
Nappy
Nappy Charisse Carney-Nunes 9780974814216 Fiction Brand Nu Words NU Words Press With a powerful message about heritage and self-esteem, this is a humorous and delightfully illustrated picture book th...
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Kwame Ture with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell 9780684850047 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The aston...
Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans
Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans Eric V. Copage 9780688122911 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Eric V. Copage’s Black Pearls is an extraordinary bo...
The Angry Black Woman’s Guide To Life
The Angry Black Woman’s Guide To Life Denene Millner, Angela Burt-Murray, and Mitzi Miller 9780452285125 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House The smart, sassy guide to embracing your inner Angry Black W...
Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP
Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the NAACP Janet Cheatham Bell 9780743428255 Nonfiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Taking its title from the moving lyrics of the...
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement Bettye Collier-Thomas 9780814716038 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The rarely h...
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780152010058 Nonfiction Gulliver Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked...
The Pan-Africanists
The Pan-Africanists Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson 9780865438101 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made o...
Take a Walk in Their Shoes: Biographies of 14 Outstanding African Americans
Take a Walk in Their Shoes: Biographies of 14 Outstanding African Americans Glennette Tilley Turner 9780140362503 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Presents biographical sketches of fourtee...