History - African American & Black

The celebrated author of Ezra Jack Keats Award winner Nell Plants a Tree and a Caldecott Honor artist come together for a poetic picture book introduction to Juneteenth and its origin.Oh, how you would dance! How you would sing! How you would celebrate!With lyrical...

Considered one of "the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War" (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told...

Considered one of "the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War" (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbreaking account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told...

A passionate and illuminating account of soul, the hard-won wisdom shepherded by Black people throughout generationsHow did enslaved Africans turn America's infamous failure into the greatest moral occasion of modern Western life? In this book, Christopher Freeburg answers that question with one word: soul....

The #1 New York Times bestseller! This chapter book edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America RACE. Uh-oh. The R-word. But actually...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This chapter book edition of the groundbreaking #1 bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America RACE. Uh-oh. The R-word. But actually talking about...

The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated...

The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries,...

"Imagine you had to walk 600 miles to get fair treatment at school!" Twelve-year-old Joyce Clemons introduces a fictional memory book documenting the little-known true story of nineteen Black mothers, thirty-seven children, and their two-year march to integrate an Ohio elementary school. Following the...

An inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-liners and quotable short passages from historic and contemporary thought leaders throughout the African Diaspora. Famous Black Quotations, first published in 1986, has long been the go-to resource for the eloquent words of Black history makers. In this...

This "superbly researched and engaging" (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South--and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs "alongside the work of...

The revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong How did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong? In Stomp Off, Let's Go, author and Armstrong expert Ricky Riccardi tells the enthralling story of the iconic trumpeter's meteoric rise to fame. Beginning...

One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2019 - One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of the year - Finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction Literature "Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . ....

"An unflinching and visionary work that recovers the central role of children in the making of racial violence."--Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow A powerful, unsettling, and unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood...

Author: Rashauna JohnsonPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/05/2026Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781009668323About the AuthorJohnson, Rashauna: - Rashauna Johnson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of the prizewinning book Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree...

Esta es la verdadera historia, nunca antes contada, de las mujeres afroamericanas de la NASA expertas en matemáticas, que desempeñaron un papel crucial en el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y cuyas contribuciones han permanecido anónimas... hasta ahora. La fenomenal historia de mujeres matemáticas...

A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson's account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past. "A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn't stop reading."...

Author: Yvonne Clark-Rhines,Monica Clark-RobinsonPublisher: Quill Tree BooksPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 40Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 11.20h x 9.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9780063251601Audience: Ages 4-8Review Citation(s): Booklist 01/01/2026Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2025Publishers Weekly 11/03/2025Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2025About the AuthorClark-Robinson, Monica: - Monica Clark-Robinson is passionate about stories--writing them,...

This standout creative nonfiction debut explores the lives and histories of plants considered nonnative or invasive as metaphors for the Black experience in America. In Tending the Vines, Ashia S. Ajani illuminates how eight unique plants tell the story of the Black diaspora in...

"There is no one better to pick apart the disastrous 1619 Project than Phil Magness. If every classroom that incorporated the 1619 Project into its curriculum replaced it with this book, the country would be better off." --Coleman Hughes Slavery is part of America's...