Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement

Elizabeth Alexander

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series

Carol Anderson/Tonya Bolden

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

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Tracey Baptiste

The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras

Melba Pattillo  Beals

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

Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High

Tonya Bolden

Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men

Arna Bontemps

100 Years of Negro Freedom

Great Slave Narratives

The Story of the Negro   

They Seek a City (revised as Anyplace but Here) 

Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia 1800

The Harlem Renaissance Remembered 

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman

We Have Tomorrow

George Washington Carver 

Free at Last: the Life of Frederick Douglas      

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed 

Michael Cottman

Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy 

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

Elton C. Fax

Seventeen Black Artists  

Contemporary Black Leaders 

Black Artists of the New Generation 

Garvey: The Story of a Pioneer Black Nationalist

Tom Feelings

Black Pilgrimage

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Julius K. Nyerere: Teacher of Africa

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

The Cotton Club 

Witchcraft, Mysticism and Magic in the Black World 

The Scottsboro Boys 

Spike Lee: By Any Means Necessary 

Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson  

The House That Jack Built: My Life As a Trailblazer in Broadcasting and Entertainment 

The Long Struggle: The Story of American Labor

Bricktop  

Queen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington 

Langston Hughes

The First Book of the Negroes 

The First Book of Jazz 

The First Book of the West Indies 

First Book of Africa  

Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP    

Blair Imani

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

Mae Jemison

Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life

Katherine Johnson

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

June Jordan

Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood

Mikki Kendall

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

John Lewis

Run

March: Book Three   

March: Book Two

March: Book One

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

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Proud: Living My American Dream

Marilyn Nelson

A Wreath for Emmett Till  

Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem  

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

Sidney Poitier

This Life 

Dorothy Marie Rice

The Seventeenth Child

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  

Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored 

Leon Walter Tillage

Leon’s Story

David F. Walker

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History

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

Carter G. Woodson

The Miseducation of the Negro