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A Dance Like Starlight
By Kristy Dempsey
ISBN: 9780399252846
A Weed is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver
By Aliki
ISBN: 9780671661182
As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
By Richard Michelson
ISBN: 9780385753876
Back of the Bus
By Aaron Reynolds
ISBN: 9780399250910
Brick by Brick
By Charles R. Smith, Jr.
ISBN: 9780061920820
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
By Paula Young Shelton
ISBN: 9780385376068
Destiny's Gift
By Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
ISBN: 9781600606441
Ellington was not a Street
By Ntozake Sharge
ISBN: 9780689828843
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
By Jabari Asim
ISBN: 9780316086578
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman
By Louise Borden and Mary Kay Kroeger
ISBN: 9780689824579
Freedom Over Me
By Ashley Bryan
ISBN: 9781481456906
Giant Steps to Change the World
By Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
ISBN: 9780689868153
Grace For President
By Kelly S. DiPucchio
ISBN: 9781423139997
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
By Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein
ISBN: 9780763665937
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
By Renee Watson
ISBN: 9780375869730
Henry's Freedom Box
By Ellen Levine
ISBN: 9780439777339
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
By Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 9781402210488
I Have Heard of a Land
By Joyce Carol Thomas
ISBN: 9780064436175
In the Land of Milk and Honey
By Joyce Carol Thomas
ISBN: 9780060253837
Last Stop on Market Street
By Matt de la Peña
ISBN: 9780399257742
Let My People Go: Bible Stories told by a Freeman of Color
By Patricia & Frederick McKissack
ISBN: 9780689808562
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By Katheryn Russell-Brown
ISBN: 9781600608988
Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens
By Nina Nolan
ISBN: 9780060879440
Martin & Mahalia: His Words & Her Song
By Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney
ISBN: 9780316070133
Molly, by Golly!
By Dianne Ochiltree
ISBN: 9781590787212
My Brother Martin
By Christine King Farris
ISBN: 9780689843877
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Martin Luther King, III
ISBN: 9780060280758
My Name is Blessing
By Eric Walters
ISBN: 9781770493018
My Uncle Martin's Big Heart
By Angela Farris Watkins, PhD
ISBN: 9780810989757
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
By Barack Obama
ISBN: 9780375835278
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
By Robert Andrew Parker Rhodes
ISBN: 9780375839658
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
By Jabari Asim
ISBN: 9780399168567
Ruth and the Green Book
By Calvin Alexander Ramsey
ISBN: 9780761352556
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
By Audrey Vernick
ISBN: 9780061349201
Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride
By Andrea Davis Pinkney & Brian Pinkney
ISBN: 9780786807673
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
By Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN: 9780679874720
Tar Beach
By Faith Ringgold
ISBN: 9780517885444
The Colors of Us
By Karen Katz
ISBN: 9780805071634
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
By Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 9780375824050
The Youngest Marcher
By Cynthia Levinson
ISBN: 9781481400701
This is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
By Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780399239861
Two Friends
By Dean Robbins
ISBN: 9780545399968
Two Mrs. Gibsons
By Toyomi Igus
ISBN: 9780892391707
When Grandmama Sings
By Margaree King Mitchell
ISBN: 9780688175634
When Marian Sang
By Pam Munoz Ryan
ISBN: 9780439269674
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
By Kathleen Krull
ISBN: 9780152020989
Women Who Broke the Rules: Coretta Scott King
By Kathleen Krull
ISBN: 9780802738264
Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells
By Philip Dray
ISBN: 9781561454174
Zora! The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
By Dennis Brindell Fadin
ISBN: 9780547006956
Antiracist Baby
By Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 978-0593110416
Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten
By Laura Veirs
ISBN: 9781452148571
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
By Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN: 9780786851751
In Your Hands
By Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN: 9781481462938
Love Will See You Through: Martin Luther King Jr's Six Guiding Beliefs
By Angela Farris Watkins, PhD
ISBN: 9781416986935
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
By Patricia Hruby Powell
ISBN: 9781452103143
Gordon Parks
By Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN: 9780807530177
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
By Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN: 9780763665319
We March
By Shane W. Evans
ISBN: 9781596435391
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
By Andrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN: 9780316070164
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
By Gary Golio
ISBN: 9781467751230
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
By Andrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN: 9780547906041
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
By Ilyasah Shabazz
ISBN: 9781442412163
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
By Matt de la Peña
ISBN: 9780147510617
Jackie's Gift
By Sharon Robinson
ISBN: 9780670011629
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
By Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN: 9781541581203
Sulwe
By Lupita Nyong'o
ISBN: 9781534425361
Dream Big, Little One
By Vashti Harrison
ISBN: 9780316475099
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
ISBN: 9780316475112
I, Too, Am America
By Langston Hughes
ISBN: 9781442420083
Something Happened in Our Town (A Child's Story About Racial Injustice)
By Marianne Celano
ISBN: 9781433828546
Let the Children March
By Monica Clark-Robinson
ISBN: 9780544704527
A Computer Called Katherine
By Suzanne Buckingham Slade
ISBN: 9780316435178
The Story of John Lewis: A Biography Book for New Readers
By Tonya Leslie
ISBN: 9781648766978
The Story of Harriet Tubman: A Biography Book for New Readers
By Christine Platt
ISBN: 9781646111091
We Wait for the Sun
By Katie McCabe
ISBN: 9781250229021
The Undefeated
By Kwame Alexander
ISBN: 9781328780966
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
ISBN: 9780316475143
Skin Like Mine
By LaTashia M. Perry
ISBN: 9780997157987
Hair Like Mine
By LaTashia M. Perry
ISBN: 9781734086553
I Am Every Good Thing
By Derrick Barnes
ISBN: 9780525518778
To Be A Drum
By Evelyn Coleman
ISBN: 9780807580073
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
By Katheryn Russell-Brown
ISBN: 9781620143469
Milo Imagines the World
By Matt de la Peña
ISBN: 9780399549083
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book
By Keila V. Dawson
ISBN: 9781506467917
Black is a Rainbow Color
By Angela Joy
ISBN: 9781626726314
Sing A Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations
By Kelly Starling Lyons
ISBN: 9780525516095
Juneteenth: A Children's Story
By Opal Lee
ISBN: 9781513684918
Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson
ISBN: 9781681199559
Milo's Museum
By Zetta Elliott
ISBN: 9781537580968
That's My Dream!
By Langston Hughes
ISBN: 9780399550171
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
By Don Tate
ISBN: 9781682630624
Juneteenth
By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Drew Nelson
ISBN: 9780822559740
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
By Angela Johnson
ISBN: 9780689873768
Juneteenth for Mazie
By Floyd Cooper
ISBN: 9781479558209
The Other Side
By Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780399231162
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
By Suzanne Slade
ISBN: 9781419734113
A Place Inside of Me
By Zetta Elliott
ISBN: 9780374307417
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
By Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780618397402
Brown Sugar Babe
By Charlotte Watson Sherman
ISBN: 9781635921380
The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague
By Julia Finley Mosca
ISBN: 9781943147700
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound
By Kathleen Cornell Berman
ISBN: 9781624146909
White Socks Only
By Evelyn Coleman
ISBN: 9780807589564
Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring
By Nancy Churnin
ISBN: 9781939547651
Ona Judge Outwits the Washingtons: An Enslaved Woman Fights for Freedom
By Gwendolyn Hooks
ISBN: 9781543512809
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
By Bethany Hegedus
ISBN: 9781620145876
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
By Alicia D. Williams
ISBN: 9781534419131
Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball's Negro Leagues
By Leah Henderson
ISBN: 9781684460236
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch
By Heidi Tyline King
ISBN: 9781101996294
Your Legacy: A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History
By Schele Williams
ISBN: 9781419748752
Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
By Shana Keller
ISBN: 9781534110014
Northbound: A Train Ride Out of Segregation
By Michael S. Bandy
ISBN: 9780763696504
Carter Reads the Newspaper
By Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN: 9781561459346
Friday Stories Learning About Haiti: Haiti
By Jenny Delacruz
ISBN: 9781734221923
Sweet Dreams, Sarah
By Vivian Kirkfield
ISBN: 9781939547316
Thurgood
By Jonah Winter
ISBN: 9781524765330
Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery
By Sandra Neil Wallace
ISBN: 9781481443876
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School
By Janet Halfmann
ISBN: 9781620141632
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Fashion Designer Ann Cole Lowe
By Deborah Blumenthal
ISBN: 9781499802399
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
By Jonah Winter
ISBN: 9780385390286
Freedom in Congo Square
By Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN: 9781499801033
Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
By Suzanne Slade
ISBN: 9781580895699
Steamboat School
By Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN: 9781423121961
Ticktock Banneker's Clock
By Shana Keller
ISBN: 9781585369560
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
By Gwendolyn Hooks
ISBN: 9781620141564
Originally published by the General Board of Church and Society. Republished with permission by ResourceUMC.