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YA: Celebrating African-American History

After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN: 9780142413999
Publication Date: 2010-01-07
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi
ISBN: 9780152008765
Publication Date: 1996-10-25
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
ISBN: 9780805098693
Publication Date: 2014-10-21
Invasion by Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9780545384285
Publication Date: 2013-09-24
March by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013-08-13

Diversity in the Race for Space

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062363596
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
ISBN: 9780316338929
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
We Could Not Fail by Richard Paul; Steven Moss
ISBN: 9781477311134
Publication Date: 2016-09-06

Children's: Black History Picks

Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0147510589
Publication Date: 2013-12-26
Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs; Shane W. Evans (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780312603267
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
My People by Langston Hughes; Charles R. Smith (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781416935407
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator); Gwen Strauss
ISBN: 9780761352556
Publication Date: 2010-08-01

Black Authors Write About Slavery in American History

Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
ISBN: 9780062318657
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs; Nell Irvin Painter (Introduction by); John S. Jacobs; Harriet A. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780140437959
Publication Date: 2000-07-01
Middle Passage by Charles R. Johnson
ISBN: 9780452266384
Publication Date: 1991-07-01
A Slave No More by David W. Blight; Wallace Turnage (As told to); John Washington (As told to)
ISBN: 9780151012329
Publication Date: 2007-11-05
Some Sing, Some Cry by Ntozake Shange; Ifa Bayeza
ISBN: 9780312198992
Publication Date: 2010-09-14
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup; Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781476767345
Publication Date: 2013-11-19
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780385537032
Publication Date: 2035-01-01

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