African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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- Jesse Jackson, still fighting for the dream, by Brenda Wilkinson ; with an introduction by Andrew Young
- Escape from slavery, the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words, edited and illustrated by Michael McCurdy
- A picture book of Harriet Tubman, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Samuel Byrd
- Minty, a story of young Harriet Tubman, by Alan Schroeder ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney
- 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
- Crispus Attucks, Black leader of colonial patriots, by Dharathula H. Millender ; illustrated by Gray Morrow
- Mae Jemison, written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Janna Morton
- Shirley Chisholm dared, the story of the first black woman in congress, written by Alicia D. Williams ; illustrated by April Harrison
- Harriet Tubman, by Judith Bentley
- Frederick Douglass, Melissa Banta
- The United States v. Jackie Robinson, written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
- A stranger in my own house, the story of W.E.B. Du Bois, Bonnie Hinman
- A spy called James, the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent, Anne Rockwell ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Those who saw the sun, African American oral histories from the Jim Crow South, Jaha Nailah Avery
- Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of peace, by Garnet Jackson ; illustrated by George Ford
- Martin Luther King Jr., written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Mai Ly Degnan
- Your legacy, a bold reclaiming of our enslaved history, written by Schele Williams ; illustrated by Tonya Engel
- Martin Luther King, Jr., by Lucia Raatma
- A picture book of Sojourner Truth, by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Gershom Griffith
- Have I ever told you Black lives matter, written by Shani King ; illustrations by Bobby C. Martin, Jr
- Just Jerry, how drawing shaped my life : a memoir, by Caldecott Medalist Jerry Pinkney
- W.E.B. DuBois, civil rights leader, Nathaniel Moss
- Pathfinders, the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls, Tonya Bolden
- Muhammad Ali, written by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Brosmind
- A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr., David A. Adler ; illustrated by Robert Casilla
- Runaway, the daring escape of Oney Judge, Ray Anthony Shepard ; [illustrated by] Keith Mallett
- The ABCs of Black history, words by Rio Cortez ; pictures by Lauren Semmer
- Fifty cents and a dream, young Booker T. Washington, by Jabari Asim ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- The highest tribute, Thurgood Marshall's life, leadership, and legacy / written by Kekla Magoon ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Amy Pastan
- Jesse Owens, written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Anna Katharina Jansen
- Chasing space, by Leland Melvin
- Hand in hand, ten Black men who changed America, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney
- No small potatoes, Junius G. Groves and his kingdom in Kansas, by Tonya Bolden ; illustrated by Don Tate
- The story of George Washington Carver, Eva Moore ; illustrated with prints by Alexander Anderson and with photographs
- Harriet Tubman--the road to freedom, by Rae Bains ; illustrated by Larry Johnson. --
- Little legends, exceptional men in black history, Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson
- The fierce 44, Black Americans who shook up the world, written by the staff of The Undefeated ; portraits by Robert Ball ; edited by Stephen Reiss ; preface by Kevin Merida ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Coretta Scott King, written by Kelly Starling Lyons ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- I have a dream, the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Jim Haskins
- Before she was Harriet, the story of Harriet Tubman, by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Roy Wilkins, leader of the NAACP, Calvin Craig Miller
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, woman of courage, by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
- African Americans who were first, Joan Potter and Constance Claytor
- Who is the man in the air?, Michael Jordan, by Gabe Soria ; illustrated by Brittney Williams
- Harriet Tubman, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- Coretta Scott, by Ntozake Shange ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass, David A. Adler ; illustrated by Samuel Byrd
- Seven miles to freedom, the Robert Smalls story, by Janet Halfmann ; illustrated by Duane Smith
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