History - African American & Black

"At once narrative history, family chronicle and personal memoir... [a] luminous work of investigation and introspection." -Wall Street Journal National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis's own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American...

Introduce little learners to the Juneteenth holiday with this 250-word board book about its origins and traditions. What are the origins of America's newest national holiday? With simple, age-appropriate language and colorful illustrations, this little board book introduces children to the events of June...

NAMED A TOP BOOK OF 2024 BY AMAZON AND WASHINGTON POST"Hannah Durkin lets the enslaved speak for themselves, and they tell a story not only of unimaginable suffering but also of courage and survival."--Wall Street Journal"The Survivors of the Clotilda, a comprehensive account of...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK - Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history--until now. "This is the kind of...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK - Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography - The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history--until now. "This is the kind...

This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther...

The Tale of the Panther and the Dove is a one of a kind compilation of Assata Shakur and Leila Khaled's most important and echoing statements, quotes and axioms. Two of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the world are both featured here...

Named one of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Best Books of 2023Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2024New York Public Library's Best New Comics of 2023 Top Ten Pick Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he...

Winner of the NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Graphic NovelsWinner of an Alex Award from the American Library AssociationWinner of the Libby Award for Best Comic/Graphic Novel of the YearFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in NonfictionNominated for an Eisner Award for Best...

"An unforgettable story of female strength, hope and friendship. This collaborative work is magnificent--a true revelation!" --Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman with the Blue Star"A brilliant story brimming with unexpected friendships and family ties. Historically sound and beautifully stitched,...

During a dramatic three-day period in March 1961, nine students from historically Black Tougaloo College staged sit-ins at the all-White Main Library in Jackson, Mississippi. The students conducted their protest and were arrested, held in jail overnight, and convicted of "breach of peace"--the first...

Before the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . . "A fascinating, gripping narrative."--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of FreedomOn a crisp autumn day in Ohio, 1858, two Kentucky slave hunters were...

A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets--with urgent lessons for today "[P]owerful, revelatory. . . . [A]s a writer Nabugodi is warm and...

An "intimate and searching" (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from "one of our country's greatest historians" (Clint Smith, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How the Word is...

Just days after it released a blistering report on what really happened 100 years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- detailing how the white citizens literally massacred Tulsa's black citizens, and how it was covered up -- the Trump administration stopped all future investigations by...

Winner of the 2020 Caldecott Medal A 2020 Newbery Honor Book Winner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree. Originally...

In The Underground Abductor, #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Nathan Hale tells an abolitionist tale about Harriet Tubman in the Hazardous Tales graphic novel series! "These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history."...

Underground Abductor: Bigger & Badder Edition is a deluxe, oversized edition of author-illustrator Nathan Hale's original graphic novel in the New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tales series--with 16 pages of new material! Araminta Ross was born an enslaved person in Delaware in the early...

Embark on a profound journey through the veiled pathways of hope and resilience with The Underground Railroad.This book pierces the shroud of myths surrounding one of history's most clandestine escapes to freedom. Uncover the true stories of courage that fueled the Underground Railroad.Navigate through...

Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biography. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by...