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History

  • Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War

  • Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis

  • Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton

  • Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade

  • Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader

  • Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote

  • Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom

  • I See Color

  • They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park

  • Saving the Day: Garrett Morgan’s Life-Changing Invention of the Traffic Signal (A Sweet Blackberry Book)

  • Yaya and the Sea

  • Sydney’s Big Speech

  • Bright Stars of Black British History

  • The ABCs of Black History (The ABCs of History)

  • Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin

  • Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

  • I’m Going to Be a Princess

  • A is for Agbada: An African Alphabet Adventure (Africa by Alphabets)

  • Kwanzaa Gets an A

  • Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging

  • We Could Fly

  • There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)

  • Harlem at Four

  • Kicks in the Sky

  • The Walk (A Stroll to the Poll): A Picture Book (Abrams Books for Young Readers)

  • A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music (A Child’s Introduction Series)

  • Empowering Stories For Black Children: The Power Of Kindness: Educational Inspiring Children’s book For Black History Month (Holiday Books for Kids) … of Black History, Culture and Spirituality)

  • Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll

  • I Am a Triathlete

  • You Made Me A Mama

  • Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington

  • The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story

  • Juneteenth: A Picture Book for Kids Celebrating Black Joy

  • The History of Juneteenth: A History Book for New Readers (The History of: A History Series for New Readers)

  • The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States

  • All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

  • The Little Gentleman

  • Ky’s World: My ABCs Story and Affirmation

  • Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)

  • The 1619 Project: Born on the Water