African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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African Americans
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- This is your time, Ruby Bridges
- Harriet Tubman, a journey to freedom, Sandra A. Agard
- Coretta Scott King, written by Kelly Starling Lyons ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- The ABCs of Black history, words by Rio Cortez ; pictures by Lauren Semmer
- Meet Martin Luther King, Jr., by James T. de Kay
- My name is Truth, the life of Sojourner Truth, by Ann Turner ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Runaway, the daring escape of Ona Judge, written by Ray Anthony Shepard ; illustrated by Keith Mallett
- Play ball, Jackie!, Stephen Krensky ; illustrations by Joe Morse
- Be a king, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by James E. Ransome
- Discovering Black America, from the age of exploration to the twenty-first century, Linda Tarrant-Reid
- Martin Luther King Jr., written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Mai Ly Degnan
- John Lewis, by Denise Lewis Patrick ; illustrated by Steffi Walthall
- Ain't nothing but a man, my quest to find the real John Henry, Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson
- Little legends, exceptional men in black history, Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson
- Only passing through, the story of Sojourner Truth, by Anne Rockwell ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- Harriet Tubman, by Kit Jazynka ; illustrated by Charlotte Ager
- Duke Ellington's Nutcracker suite, Anna Harwell Celenza ; illustrated by Don Tate
- Jesse Owens, written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Anna Katharina Jansen
- No small potatoes, Junius G. Groves and his kingdom in Kansas, by Tonya Bolden ; illustrated by Don Tate
- Pauli Murray, shouting for the rights of all people, Deborah Nelson Linck ; illustrations by Angela Corbin
- Sprouting wings, the true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States, Louisa Jaggar & Shari Becker ; illustrations by Floyd Cooper
- I am Harriet Tubman, Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos
- Martin Luther King Jr., fighting for civil rights, Christine Platt ; interior illustrations, David Shephard
- Barack Obama, Caroline Crosson Gilpin
- Pathfinders, the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls, Tonya Bolden
- Escape north!, the story of Harriet Tubman, by Monica Kulling ; illustrated by Teresa Flavin
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr., Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos
- Harriet Tubman, written by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Pili Aguado
- Before she was Harriet, Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by James E. Ransome
- In the shadow of liberty, the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five black lives, Kenneth C. Davis
- Have I ever told you Black lives matter, by Shani King ; illustrated by Bobby C. Martin, Jr
- Little leaders, bold women in black history, Vashti Harrison
- Martin Luther King Jr., by Laurie Calkhoven ; illustrated by Charlotte Ager
- Jackie Robinson, strong inside and out, by the editors of Time for Kids with Denise Lewis Patrick
- Stolen into slavery, the true story of Solomon Northup, free black man, by Judith Fradin and Dennis Fradin
- A hunger for learning, a story about Booker T. Washington, by Gwenyth Swain ; illustrations by Larry Johnson
- Freedom train, the story of Harriet Tubman, by Dorothy Sterling
- Birth of the cool, how jazz great Miles Davis found his sound, Kathleen Cornell Berman ; illustrated by Keith Henry Brown
- Wilma unlimited, how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman, Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by David Diaz
- Timelines from Black history, leaders, legends, legacies, writer and consultant, Mireille Harper ; illustrator, Lauren Quinn ; foreword by Mireille Harper
- Moses, when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- Our children can soar, a celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the pioneers of change, Michelle Cook ; foreword by Marian Wright Edelman ; illustrations by Cozbi Cabrera ... [and others]
- King of ragtime, the story of Scott Joplin, Stephen Costanza
- Midnight teacher, Lilly Ann Granderson and her secret school, by Janet Halfmann ; illustrated by London Ladd
- Brave, black, first, 50+ African American women who changed the world, Cheryl Willis Hudson ; illustrations by Erin K. Robinson
- Duke Ellington, the piano prince and his orchestra, Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
- Fly high!, the story of Bessie Coleman, by Louise Borden and Mary Kay Kroeger ; illustrated by Teresa Flavin
- Bird & Diz, Gary Golio ; art by Ed Young
- Jesse Owens, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Charlotte Ager
- The fierce 44, black Americans who shook up the world, written by the staff of The Undefeated ; portraits by Robert Ball ; edited by Stephen Reiss ; preface by Kevin Merida ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
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