Tonya Bolden

The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Let Freedom Sing! 

Veronica Chambers

Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb

Lesa Cline-Ransome

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

Satchel Paige 

Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist

Michelle Cook

Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change

Floyd Cooper

Mandela

Alice Faye Duncan

The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People 

Christine King Farris

My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World

Nikki Giovanni

Rosa   

Eloise Greenfield

The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives

Paul Robeson

Mary McLeod Bethune 

Nikki Grimes

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice

Talkin’ About Bessie 

Vashti Harrison

Follow Your Dreams, Little One (Board Book)

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History

Dream Big, Little Leader Board Book

Little Leaders Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

James Haskins

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

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali 

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

Leah Henderson

Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball’s Negro Leagues

David Heredia

Little Heroes of Color: 50 Who Made a BIG Difference

Nadia Hohn

A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice

Gwendolyn Hooks

Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas

Crystal Hubbard

Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe

The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby: The Story of Jimmy Winkfield

Rita Lorraine Hubbard

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

Kai Jackson Issa

Howard Thurman’s Great Hope

Jehan Jones-Radgowski

John Lewis: Get to Know the Statesman Who Marched for Civil Rights

Denise M. Jordan

Muhammad Ali: Meet the Champion

June Jordan

Fannie Lou Hamer

Martin Luther King Jr.

I Have a Dream

Sharon Langley

A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story

Amyra León

Freedom, We Sing

Melina Mangal

The Vast Wonder of the World

Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack

Ralph J. Bunche: Peacemaker

Mary Church Terrell: Leader for Equality

Zora Neale Hurston: Writer and Storyteller

Satchel Paige: The Best Arm in Baseball

Langston Hughes: Great American Poet

Mary McLeod Bethune: Woman of Courage

Madam C. J. Walker: Inventor and Millionaire 

Marian Anderson: A Great Singer 

Paul Robeson: A Voice for Change 

Booker T. Washington: African-American Leader 

Louis Armstrong: King of Jazz 

George Washington Carver: Scientist and Inventor

Jesse Owens: Legendary Track Star   

Carter G. Woodson: Black History Pioneer 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace 

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence 

James Weldon Johnson: “Lift every voice and sing”

Michelle Meadows

Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins

Louise Meriwether

The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls 

Don’t Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story

Johnny Ray Moore

Story of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Katheryn Russell-Brown

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm

Naomi M. Moyer

Black Women Who Dared

Walter Dean Myers

Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told

I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion 

Young Martin’s Promise

Kadir Nelson

Nelson Mandela

Lorenzo Pace

Marching with Martin

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down 

Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song 

Boycott Blues 

Christine Platt

Harriet Tubman 

Megan Reid

Althea Gibson: The Story of Tennis’ Fleet-of-Foot Girl

Megan Reid

Althea Gibson: The Story of Tennis’ Fleet-of-Foot Girl

Jael Ealey Richardson

The Stone Thrower

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-ins

Faith Ringgold

If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

Dorothy W. Robinson

Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement

Katheryn Russell-Brown

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm

A Voice Named Aretha

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Ilyasah Shabazz

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

Ntozake Shange

Coretta Scott

We Troubled the Waters 

Paula Young Shelton

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Charles R. Smith

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson

Samantha Thornhill

Odetta: Queen of Folk

Jody Nyasha Warner

Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged 

Carole Boston Weatherford

Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman’s Case for Equality and Respect

RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights

Birmingham: 1963 

Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom 

Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion

I, Matthew Henson 

Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics