Roda Ahmed

Mae Among the Stars

Elizabeth Alexander

Praise Song for the Day 

Glenda Armand

Ira’s Shakespeare Dream 

Jabari Asim

A Child’s Introduction to African American History

Preaching to the Chickens 

Fifty Cents and a Dream 

Tracey Baptiste

Nelson Mandela: Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Champion for Hope and Harmony

Tonya Bolden

No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas

The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church

Rosemary L Bray

Martin Luther King

Howard Bryant

Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams

Ashley Bryan

Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life’s Song

Charisse Carney-Nunes

I Am Barack Obama

Veronica Chambers

Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom

Tami Charles

Fearless Mary: The True Adventures of Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver

Deborah M. Newton Chocolate

Biddy Mason: The Open Hand 

Lucille Clifton

The Black B C’s 

Lesa Cline-Ransome

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

Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician 

Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong

Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams  

Before She Was Harriet

Satchel Paige 

Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist 

Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star

Helen Keller: The World in Her Heart 

Before There Was Mozart:  The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George 

Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass 

Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage As the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History

Michelle Cook

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

Trish Cooke

Hoorah for Mary Seacole

Floyd Cooper

Mandela

Hasan Davis

The Journey of York: The Unsung Hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Leo Dillon

Jazz on A Saturday Night 

Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles—Think of That 

Derek T. Dingle

First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson

Alice Faye Duncan

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks

The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People

Veronica Freeman Ellis

First Book about Africa: An Introduction for Young Readers

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

Jan Spivey Gilchrist

Obama: The Day the World Danced 

Joel Gill

Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride

Nikki Giovanni

Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship 

Rosa

Michelle Y. Green

A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson

Eloise Greenfield

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

Paul Robeson 

Mary McLeod Bethune 

When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War 

Nikki Grimes

Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice

Talkin’ About Bessie 

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope 

Joyce Hansen

African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa’s Royal Women

Janice N. Harrington

Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

Kamala Harris

Superheroes Are Everywhere

Meena Harris

Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea

Vashti Harrison

Follow Your Dreams, Little One (Board Book)

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History

Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (Board Book)

Dream Big, Little One (Board Book)

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 

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

Ona Judge Outwits the Washingtons: An Enslaved Woman Fights for Freedom

Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas

Crystal Hubbard

Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream  

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

Hammering for Freedom  

Cheryl Willis Hudson

Harlem Renaissance: Profiles in Creativity

Toyomi Igus

Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel

Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South 

I See the Rhythm 

I See the Rhythm of Gospel 

Dinah Johnson

All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts 

Sitting Pretty: A Celebration of Black Dolls 

Dolores Johnson

Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson 

She Dared to Fly: Bessie Coleman

Hannibal B. Johnson

Up from the Ashes: A Story about Community

Jeanine Jones

Yes We Can! Yes We Did!

Jehan Jones-Radgowski

The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery

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

Lynda Jones

Kids Around the World Celebrate!: The Best Feasts and Festivals from Many Lands

Denise M. Jordan

Muhammad Ali: Meet the Champion

June Jordan

Fannie Lou Hamer

Shana Keller 

Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story

Sharon Langley

A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story

Jacob Lawrence

The Great Migration: An American Story 

Harriet and the Promised Land 

Lessie Jones Little

Children of Long Ago

Shana Keller

Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story

Ticktock Banneker’s Clock

Amy Littlesugar

Shake Rag   

Andrea J. Loney

Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!

Kelly Starling Lyons

Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon

Sing a Song: How “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Inspired Generations

Zindzi, Zazi, & Ziwelene Mandela

Grandad Mandela

Melina Mangal

The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just

Cheryl Warren Mattox

Let’s Get the Rhythm of the Band: A Child’s Introduction to Music from African-American Culture with History and Song 

Fredrick & Lisa Beringer Mckissack

Martin Luther King, JR., Day

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 

Frederick Douglass: Leader against Slavery 

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”

Sojourner Truth: A Voice for Freedom

Michelle Meadows

Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins

Nanette Mellage

Coming Home: A True Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter 

Robert H. Miller

Buffalo Soldiers: The Story of Emanuel Stance

The Story of Jean Baptiste Du Sable

The Story of Nat Love  

The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields

Johnny Ray Moore

Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Meet Martin Luther King Jr. 

Naomi M. Moyer

Black Women Who Dared

Walter Dean Myers

Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History

Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly

We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart 

Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told

Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse 

Toussaint L’ouverture: The Fight for Haiti’s Freedom 

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

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Let ‘er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion

Juneteenth

Greg Neri

Hello, I’m Johnny Cash 

Vanessa Newton

Let Freedom Sing!

Barack Obama

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters

Lorenzo Pace

Frederick Douglass and the North Star 

Harriet Tubman and My Grandmother’s Quilts

Marching with Martin 

Jalani and the Lock 

Toni Trent Parker

Sienna’s Scrapbook

Willie Perdomo

Clemente!

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day

Alvin Ailey with Tylania Moore 

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

Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song  

Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride 

Boycott Blues

Gloria Jean Pinkney

Music from Our Lord’s Holy Heaven 

Christine Platt

Harriet Tubman 

Cleopatra 

Sacagawea 

Joan of Arc 

Megan Reid

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

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

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

Jael Ealey Richardson

The Stone Thrower

Faith Ringgold

If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks

We Came to America

Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True 

My Dream of Martin Luther King 

Dorothy W. Robinson

Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 

Belinda Rochelle

Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art 

Katheryn Russell-Brown

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

A Voice Named Aretha

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Olive Senior

Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage

Ilyasah Shabazz

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

Ntozake Shange

Coretta Scott 

Ellington Was Not a Street 

We Troubled the Waters 

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race (Picture Book Ed.)

Charles R. Smith Jr.

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

Despite The Height   

Brick by Brick 

28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World

Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson

Nikkolas Smith

The Golden Girls of Rio

Leotha Stanley

Be a Friend: The Story of African American Music in Song, Words, and Pictures 

Javaka Steptoe

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

Don Tate

William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad

Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth  

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton

It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw

Charles A. Taylor

Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom 

Gaylia Taylor

George Crum and the Saratoga Chip

Joyce Carol Thomas

In the Land of Milk and Honey

I Have Heard of a Land

Shouting!

Samantha Thornhill

Odetta: Queen of Folk

R. Jay Turner

Rhymz for the NurSoulry (A Collection of Nursery Rhymes Inspired by the Lives of Africans in America

Jody Nyasha Warner

Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged 

Sarah Warren

Beyoncé: Shine Your Light

Renee Watson

Harlem’s Little Blackbird 

Carole Boston Weatherford

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

RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music

How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace

The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop

Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You  

Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library   

Freedom in Congo Square

Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America

Obama: Only in America 

Michelle Obama: First Mom 

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom 

The Sound That Jazz Makes

Champions on the Bench:  The 1955 Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars 

Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood 

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

Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century 

Princeville:  The 500-Year Flood 

Birmingham: 1963 

I, Matthew Henson 

Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics 

A Negro League Scrapbook 

Jamia Wilson

Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present

Jacqueline Woodson

Martin Luther King, Jr., And His Birthday