Nonfiction
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A’Lelia Perry Bundles
Getting Away With Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis B. Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin
Black Knights : the Story of the Tuskegee Airmen by Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip House
We Beat the Streets: How a Friendship Pact Helped Us Succeed by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt
Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C.J. Walker by Beverly Lowry
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Kacks by Rebecca Skloot
Lift Every Voice: the NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement by Patricia Sullivan.
Remember Little Rock: the Time, the People, the Stories by Paul Robert Walker
Fiction
Zack by William Bell
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
Mare’s War by Tanita Davis
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
New Boy by Julian Houston
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
Only Twice Have I Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
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