JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American & Black
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American & Black
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JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American & Black
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- Who was Jackie Robinson?, by Gail Herman ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- In the shadow of Liberty, the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five black lives, Kenneth C. Davis
- Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?, Bonnie Bader
- A few red drops, the Chicago Race Riots of 1919, Claire Hartfield
- Climbing Lincoln's steps, the African American journey, by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Colin Bootman
- Saving the day, Garrett Morgan's life-changing invention of the traffic signal, by Karyn Parsons ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- Sing, Aretha, sing!, Aretha Franklin, "Respect," and the civil rights movement, Hanif Abdurraqib ; illustrated by Ashley Evans
- Star child, a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler, Ibi Zoboi
- Juneteenth, our day of freedom, by Sharon Dennis Wyeth ; illustrated by Kim Holt
- Freedom's sons, the true story of the Amistad mutiny, Suzanne Jurmain
- African beginnings, James Haskins & Kathleen Benson ; paintings by Floyd Cooper
- Your legacy, a bold reclaiming of our enslaved history, written by Schele Williams ; illustrated by Tonya Engel
- Breakthrough!, how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever, Jim Murphy
- Let's clap, jump, sing, & shout; dance, spin, and turn it out!, games, songs, and stories from an African American childhood, collected by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison
- Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?, by Pam Pollach and Meg Belviso ; illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez
- King of ragtime, the story of Scott Joplin, by Stephen Costanza
- More than just a game, the Black origins of basketball, Madison Moore ; illustrated by Lonnie Ollivierre
- I have a dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. ; paintings by Kadir Nelson
- What was the Underground Railroad?, by Yona Zeldis McDonough ; illustrated by Lauren Mortimer
- A child's introduction to African American history, the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country, Jabari Asim ; illustrated by Lynn Gaines
- Sweet land of liberty, written by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins
- Ida B. Wells, voice of truth, educator, feminist, and anti-lynching civil rights leader, Michelle Duster ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- The Juneteenth story, celebrating the end of slavery in the United States, written by Alliah L. Agostini ; illustrated by Sawyer Cloud
- Stars in the shadows, the Negro league all-star game of 1934, by Charles R. Smith Jr. ; illustrated by Frank Morrison
- I have a dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. ; paintings by Kadir Nelson
- Seeds of freedom, the peaceful integration of Huntsville, Alabama, Hester Bass ; illustrated by E. B. Lewis
- Who was Booker T. Washington?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Stitch by stitch, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly sews her way to freedom, by Connie Schofield-Morrison ; illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon
- Because Claudette, Tracey Baptiste ; illustrated by Tonya Engel
- Hand in hand, ten Black men who changed America, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney
- The price of freedom, how one town stood up to slavery, Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez
- What was the March on Washington?, by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Tim Tomkinson
- A time to act, John F. Kennedy's big speech, words by Shana Corey ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- Who was Booker T. Washington?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Sprouting wings, the true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States, Louisa Jaggar & Shari Becker ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Opening the road, Victor Hugo Green and his Green Book, by Keila V. Dawson ; illustrated by Alleanna Harris
- Who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?, Rosa Parks, by Insha Fitzpatrick ; illustrated by Abelle Hayford ; colors by Hanna Schroy
- Overground railroad, the Green book and the roots of black travel in America, Candacy Taylor
- Moving forward, from space-age rides to Civil Rights sit-ins with Airman Alton Yates, written by Chris Barton ; illustrated by Steffi Walthall
- My daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by Martin Luther King III ; illustrated by AG Ford
- I am loved, poems by Nikki Giovanni ; illustrations by Ashley Bryan
- Trailblazer, the story of ballerina Raven Wilkinson, by Leda Schubert ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III ; with a foreword by Misty Copeland
- What do you do with a voice like that?, the story of extraordinary congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Chris Barton ; illustrated by Ekua Holmes
- Celebrate Kwanzaa, Carolyn Otto ; consultant, Keith A. Mayes, Ph. D
- The Reconstruction era, by Bettye Stroud with Virginia Schomp
- When the schools shut down, a young girl's story of Virginia's "lost generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, written by Yolanda Gladden ; as told to Dr. Tamara Pizzoli ; illustrated by Keisha Morris
- Because of you, John Lewis, the true story of a remarkable friendship, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Keith Henry Brown
- Heart and soul, the story of America and African Americans, words and paintings by Kadir Nelson
- The power of her pen, the story of groundbreaking journalist Ethel L. Payne, written by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by John Parra