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Black Voices in Fiction: Children's

The Undefeated

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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

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Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut

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Hair Love

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Last Stop on Market Street

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Thank You, Omu!

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Ada Twist, Scientist

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Benny Doesn't Like to Be Hugged

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Pecan Pie Baby

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The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County

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Bird

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Ellington Was Not a Street

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As Brave As You

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Harbor Me

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The Season of Styx Malone

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The Last Last-Day-of-Summer

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Knock Knock

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Missing Daddy

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Slavery, Jim Crow, Reconstruction

Only Passing Through by Anne Rockwell; R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator); Nancy Siscoe (Editor)
Call Number: CL Biog Tru84r 2000
So Tall Within by Gary D. Schmidt; Daniel Minter (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL 305.000 Sch65s 2018
Underground by Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Pic Ale93u 2019
Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Call Number: CL Biog Fug58f 2000
Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog Tub66w 2006
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent by Thomas B. Allen; Carla Bauer (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog Tub63a 2006
"Bury Me Not in a Land of Slaves" by Joyce Hansen
Call Number: CL 973.04 Han74b 2000
This Is the Rope by Jacqueline Woodson; James Ransome (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Pic Woo37t 2013

Segregation, Civil Rights

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator); Martin Luther King
Call Number: CLX PN 6014b Kin40i 2012
Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: CL Biog Col85h 2009
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog Par57r 2005
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: CL Fic Woo37b 2014
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Call Number: CL Fic Wil53o 2010

Biographies - Art and Culture

Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe
Call Number: CL Pic Ste68r 2016
Trombone Shorty by Bryan Collier (Illustrator); Troy Andrews
Call Number: CL Pic And74t 2015
A Splash of Red by Jennifer Bryant; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL 759.13 Bry36s 2013
Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog Bak57p 2014
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog Lis76r 2014
When the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill; Theodore Taylor (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL 782.42 Hil50w 2013
When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan; Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog And47w 2002
Firebird by Misty Copeland; Christopher Myers (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Pic Cop45f 2014

Recent History

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Call Number: CL Fic Rho34n 2010

Biographies - Government and Politics

Thurgood by Jonah Winter; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog Thu74w 2019
Hand in Hand by Brian Pinkney (Illustrator); Andrea Pinkney
Call Number: CL 973.04 Pin56h 2012

Biographies - Science and Technology

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly; Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL 510.92 She88h 2018
The Hallelujah Flight by Phil Bildner; John Holyfield (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Pic Bil34h 2010

Biographies - Sports

A Nation's Hope by Matt de la Peña; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Biog Pen30n 2011
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson; Kwame Alexander; Dawud Anyabwile (Illustrator)
Call Number: CL Fic Pat87b 2020