Find more recommendations on our extended list of Black history titles available at your local library through World Cat.
Picture Books and Elementary
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner by Janice N. Harrington
Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
A History of Me by Adrea Theodore
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston by Alicia D. Williams
Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement by Sandra Neil Wallace
Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School by Janet Halfmann
Papa's Mark by Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story by Sharon Langley and Amy Nathan
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey with Gwen Strauss
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson
Middle Grade
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Never Caught the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away (Young Readers Edition) by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
We Are Your Children Too: Black Students White Supremacists and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County Virginia by P. O’Connell Pearson
We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963 by Shelia P. Moses
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill
Young Adult
American Wings: Chicago's Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky by Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein
Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles
Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South by Wade Hudson
A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Ray Anthony Shepard
Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist by Rosita Stevens-Holsey and Terry Catasús Jennings
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster Mutiny and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Young Readers Edition) by Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown V. Board of Education by Lawrence Goldstone
Shackles from the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship a Bitter Past and a Rich Legacy by Michael H. Cottman
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