The Old South (1973) 

The Harlem Renaissance Remembered (1972) 

Free at Last: the Life of Frederick Douglas (1971)

Mr. Kelso’s Lion (1970)  

Hold Fast to Dreams (1969) 

Great Slave Narratives (1969)

American Negro Poetry (1964)

Famous Negro Athletes (1964) 

Personals (1963) 

100 Years of Negro Freedom (1961)

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman (1959)

The Book of Negro Folklore (1958) 

Lonesome Boy (1955) 

Chariot in the Cloud: A Story of the Jubilee Singers (1951) 

George Washington Carver (1950) 

The Story of the Negro (1948)

Slappy Hooper, the Wonderful Sign Painter (1946)

They Seek a City (revised as Anyplace but Here) (1945) 

We Have Tomorrow (1945) 

The Fast Sooner Hound (1942)

Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (1941) 

Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Reader (1941) 

Drums at Dusk: A Novel (1939) 

Sad-Faced Boy (1937) 

Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia 1800 (1936) 

You Can't Pet a Possum (1934) 

Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti (1932) 

God Sends Sunday (1931)