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All Different Now: Juneteenth, the first day of freedom - Angela Johnson

A Sweet Smell of Roses - Angela Johnson

Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky - Faith Ringgold

Brick by Brick - Charles Smith

Busing Brewster - Richard Michelson

Child of the Civil Rights Movement - Paula Young Shelton and Raul Colon

Fifty Cents and a Dream: young Booker T. Washington - Jabari Asim

Finding Lincoln - Ann Malaspina 

Freedom School, Yes! - Amy Littlesugar

Freedom Summer - Deborah Wiles

Let 'er Buck! George Fletcher the People's Champion - Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Lillian's Right to Vote - Jonah Winter and Shane Evans

Lizzie Demands a Seat! Elizabeth Jennings Fight for Streetcar Rights - Beth Anderson

Malcolm Little: the Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz

Martin's Big Words: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Doreen Rappaport

Moses: when Harriet Tubman lead her people to freedom - Carole Boston Weatherford

My Brother Martin - Christine King Farris 

My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr - Martin Luther King III

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read - Rita Lorraine Hubbard and Oge Mora

Ron's Big Mission - Rose Blue & Corinne Naden

Rosa's Bus: the ride to civil rights - Jo Kittinger 

Seeds of Freedom: the peaceful intigration of Huntsville, Alabama - Hester Bass

Sit-in: how four friends stood up by sitting down - Andrea David Pinkney

The Story of Ruby Bridges - Robert Coles

The Teacher's March! How Selma's Teachers Change History - Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace

Walking Home to Rosie Lee - A. LaFaye

We March - Shane Evans 

White Water - Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein

A Good Kind of Trouble - Lisa Moore Ramee

Answering the Cry for Freedom: stories of African Americans and the American Revolution - Gretchen Woelfle

Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson

Can I Touch Your Hair? : poems of race, mistakes, and friendship - Irene Latham

Claudette Colvin: twice towards justice - Phillip M. Hoose

Let it Shine: Stories of Black women freedom fighters - Andrea Davis Pinkney

Little Leaders: bold women in black history - Vashti Harrison

Little Legends: exceptional men in black history - Vashti Harrison

One Crazy Summer - Rita Williams-Garcia

The Parker Inheritance - Varian Johnson

Timelines from Black History: leaders, legends, legacies - Mireille Harper

The True West - Mifflin Lowe

The Underground Abductor: an abolitionist tale - Nathan Hale

Unspeakable: the Tulsa race massacre - Carole Boston Weatherford

What Was the March on Washington - Kathleen Krull

Who Was Coretta Scott King - Gail Herman

Who Was Martin Luther King Jr - Bonnie Bader

The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

Slavery by Another Name: the re-enslavement of black americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas Blackmon