Discover children's books with Black characters!

1900s

  • 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

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

  • Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

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

  • Harlem at Four

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

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

  • Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book

  • Because Claudette

  • A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington

  • Unlawful Orders: A Portrait of Dr. James B. Williams, Tuskegee Airman, Surgeon, and Activist (Scholastic Focus) (The Scholastic Focus)

  • Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book

  • Bessie the Motorcycle Queen

  • Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound

  • Overground Railroad

  • A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon

  • The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne

  • A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story

  • Big Papa and the Time Machine