Kwame Alexander

Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Carol Anderson/Tonya Bolden

One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Melba Pattillo Beals

I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire

Michael Bennett

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed

Christine King Farris

Through It All: Reflections on My Life, My Family, and My Faith 

Elton C. Fax

Garvey: The Story of a Pioneer Black Nationalist 

Zetta Elliott

Say Her Name

Kamala Harris

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey (Young Readers Edition)

Claire Hartfield

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

James Haskins

Bricktop  

Queen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington 

Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson  

The Scottsboro Boys 

Langston Hughes

Black Misery  

Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP  

Blair Imani

Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

Tiffany Jewell

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work

Katherine Johnson

Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

Mikki Kendall

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

Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha badele

When They Call You a Terrorist (YA Ed.): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World

John Lewis

March: Book One

March: Book Two

March: Book Three

Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

Kekla Magoon

Today the World Is Watching You: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for School Integration, 1957 

Wes Moore

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Marilyn Nelson

How I Discovered Poetry 

A Wreath for Emmett Till  

Trevor Noah

It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

Jason Reynolds/Ibram X. Kendi

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

Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett

I Never Had it Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition

Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

Clifton Taulbert

The Last Train North   

Watching Our Crops Come In  

David Walker

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History

Rebecca Walker

Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self