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

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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

Michaela DePrince

Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Dancer

Ger Duany/Garen Thomas

Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Ambassador of Peace

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

Zetta Elliott

Say Her Name 

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 

Johnathan Harris

Colorblind: A Story of Racism

James Haskins

Bricktop  

Queen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington 

Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson  

The Scottsboro Boys 

Claire Hartfield

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Akilah Hughes

Obviously: Stories from My Timeline

Langston Hughes

Black Misery

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

George M. Johnson

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

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

Patrisse Khan-Cullors/asha bandele/Benee Knauer

When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World

Amyra León

Concrete Kids (Pocket Change Collective)

John Lewis

March: Book One

March: Book Two

March: Book Three

Lynda Blackmon Lowery/Elspeth Leacock/Susan Buckley

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

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  

Trevor Noah

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

Sidney Poitier

This Life 

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 

Sandra Uwiringiyimana

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

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