Picture Books
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and Kadir Nelson
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman
Trombone Shorty by Bryan Collier
Memphis, Martin and the Mountaintop: the Sanitation Strike of 1968 by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage by Selina Alko and Sean Qualls
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton and Raul Colon
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson and Frank Morrison
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford and Kadir Nelson
Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
One Million Men and Me by Kelly Starling Lyons and Peter Ambush
Josephine: the Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison
The ABC’s of Black History by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer
Exquisite: the Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Suzanne Slade and Cozbi A. Cabrera
All Around Town: the photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts by Dinah Johnson
Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! by Andrea J. Loney and Keith Mallett
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne by Lesa Cline-Ransome and John Parra
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy and Ekua Holmes
Middle Grade
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
My Life as An Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson
Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper
A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine by Melba Pattillo Beals
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician by Katherine G. Johnson
This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
YA
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
March, Book One by John Lewis
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynold, Ibram X. Kendi
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
Say Her Name by Zetta Elliot, Channie Waites
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam
X: A Novel by Ilyasha Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
Kindred (Graphic Novel) by Octavia Butler
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
Black Boy White School by Brain F. Walker
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates