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African-American History Month Book List

Picture Books

Night at the Fair by Donald Crews

Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon by Pat Cummings

Granddaddy's Street Songs by Monilia Degrees

The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy

Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolan Harold

Sam and the Tigers by Julius Lester

My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa Mollel

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema

The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African-American Children by Davida Adedjouma

Christmas Soul: African American Holiday Stories by Debbie Allen

Kofi and His Magic by Maya Angelou

Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport

May'naise Sandwiches and Sunshine Tea by Sandra Belton

Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem by Valerie Bloom

Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church by Tonya Bolden

The Piano Man by Deborah Newton Chocolate

White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman

Happy to be Nappy by bell hooks

Freedom River by Bryan Collier

Black, White, Just Right by Marguerite Davol

Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Murial Feelings

The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings

The Green Lion of Zion Street by Julia Fields

Great Women in the Struggle: Book of Black Heroes by Toyomi Igus

Celebrating Kwanzaa by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith

The Harlem Nutcracker by Susan Kuklin

Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Pictorial Tribute to the Negro National Anthem by James Weldon Johnson

Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence

Juvenile Books

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

Yolonda's Genius by Carol Fenner

Solo Girl by Andrea Davis Pinkney

The Well: David's Story by Mildred Taylor

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Cousins by Virginia Hamilton

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Slave Girl by Joyce Hansen

Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Blue Tights by Rita Williams-Garcia

If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

Motown and Didi: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers

Now is Your Time: The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers

Escape To Freedom: A Play about Young Frederick Douglass by Ossie Davis

The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor

Miracle's Boys by Jaqueline Woodson

The Land by Mildred D. Taylor

Martin Luther King, Jr. : Free at Last by David Adler

Seventeen Black Artists by Elton C. Fax

This Life by Sidney Poitier

I Never Had it Made by Alfred Duckett

Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

Africa Dream by Eloise Greenfield

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor

Teen and Adult Books

Jazz by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Color of Water by James McBride

Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Years: A Reader and Guide by Clayborne Carson

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

Black Voices by Abraham Chapman

Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr by Stephen B. Oates

Bearing the Cross by Martin Luther King Jr.

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

The Sixteenth Round by Rubin Carter

King of the World by David Remnick

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by Ralph David Abernathy

The 7th Child by Malcolm X

The Death and Life of Malcolm X by Peter Goldman

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Martin Luther King Jr.

Black Genius and the American Experience by Dick Russell

Martin Luther King, Jr...to the Mountaintop by Wm.Roger Witherspoon

Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin

When Harlem Was In Vouge by David Levering Lewis

Sula by Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Dreamer by Charles Johnson

Saint Paul

Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks

Voices of Rondo by Kateleen Jill Hope Cavett

Folktales/Folklore

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela

Her Stories: The African-American Folktales, Fairytales and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton

Ashley Bryan's African Tales, uh-huh by Ashley Bryan

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton

Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack

The Days When the Animals Talked: Black American Folktales and How They Came To Be by William Faulkner

When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing by Virginia Hamilton

John Henry by Julius Lester

Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester

Freedom Riddle by Angela Medearis

Lucky Jack and the Giant: An African-American Legend by Janet Johnson

Keelboat Annie: An African-American Legend by Janet Johnson

Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby: An African-American Legend by Janet Johnson

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