Carol Anderson/Tonya Bolden

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Arna Bontemps

100 Years of Negro Freedom 

Great Slave Narratives  

The Story of the Negro   

Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia 1800

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman

Free at Last: the Life of Frederick Douglass   

Erica Armstrong Dunbar/Kathleen Van Cleve

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

Freddi Williams Evans

Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans

Henry Louis Gates Jr./Tonya Bolden

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow

Langston Hughes

The First Book of the Negroes

The First Book of the West Indies 

First Book of Africa    

Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP 

Mikki Kendall

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights

Marilyn Nelson

Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem  

The Freedom Business: Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa

Jason Reynolds/Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

David F. Walker

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom