African Americans -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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- Sorrow's kitchen, the life and folklore of Zora Neale Hurston, Mary E. Lyons
- Who is Shaquille O'Neal?, by Ellen Labrecque ; illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez
- Sojourner Truth, ain't I a woman?, by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
- Harriet Tubman and the freedom train, written by Sharon Gayle ; illustrated by Felicia Marshall
- King remembered, Flip Schulke, Penelope Ortner McPhee. --
- Schomburg, the man who built a library, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez
- A lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr., written by Denise Lewis Patrick ; illustrated by Rodney S. Pate
- What are you figuring now?, a story about Benjamin Banneker, by Jeri Ferris ; illustrations by Amy Johnson
- Martin's Big words, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Doreen Rappaport ; illustrations by Brian Collier
- I am Martin Luther King, Jr., Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos
- Starting home, the story of Horace Pippin, painter, Mary E. Lyons
- Who is Muhammad Ali?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Stephen Marchesi
- On the court with-- Michael Jordan, Matt Christopher
- Maggie's American dream, the life and times of a Black family, by James P. Comer ; with a foreword by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- Bad boy, a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
- Walking the road to freedom, a story about Sojourner Truth, by Jeri Ferris ; illustrations by Peter E. Hanson
- Teammates, written by Peter Golenbock ; designed and illustrated by Paul Bacon
- The story of Ruby Bridges, by Robert Coles ; illustrated by George Ford
- Who was Harriet Tubman?, by Yona Zeldis McDonough ; illustrated by Nancy Harrison
- Dreams from my father, a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
- I have a dream, the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Jim Haskins
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Samuel Byrd
- Only passing through, the story of Sojourner Truth, by Anne Rockwell ; illustrated by Gregory Christie
- Uncensored, my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white America, Zachary R. Wood
- Black diamond, the story of the Negro baseball leagues, by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr
- Through my eyes, the autobiography of Ruby Bridges
- When Marian sang, the true recital of Marian Anderson, written by Pam Muñoz Ryan ; illustrated by Brian Selznick
- Frederick Douglass, the black lion, by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Gershom Griffith
- Harriet Ross Tubman, by Don Troy
- Sojourner Truth, by Laura Spinale
- Rosa Parks, by L.S. Summer
- The voice that challenged a nation, Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights, by Russell Freedman
- Minty, a story of young Harriet Tubman, by Alan Schroeder ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney
- The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Satchel Paige, Lesa Ransome ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Leadership, by the editors of Time-Life Books ; with a foreword by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Little leaders, bold women in black history, Vashti Harrison
- Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who changed things, by Carol Greene
- Harriet Tubman, Bree Burns
- Muhammad Ali was a chicken?, Dan Gutman ; illustrated by Allison Steinfeld
- Who was Booker T. Washington?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Who are Venus and Serena Williams?, by James Buckley Jr. ; illustrated by Andrew Thomson
- Stitching stars, the story quilts of Harriet Powers, Mary E. Lyons
- The Toni Morrison book club, Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams
- Timelines from Black history, leaders, legends, legacies, [writer and consultant, Mireille Harper]
- Who is Zendaya?, by Kirsten Anderson ; illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez
- Charlie Parker played be bop, Chris Raschka
- We are not broken, George M. Johnson
- Amos Fortune, free man, Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin
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