Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
by Carole Boston Weatherford
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history. Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people...
True stories and traditional songs shed light on a lesser known era in African-American history — the crucial decades between Emancipation and the start of the Civil Rights movement. In the dark of night, a mother risks her life to search for her four children, stolen by her former master. A wife refuses to hand her husband over to an angry white-hooded mob, despite the wailing of her babies — and the foot stomping on her pregnant belly. A woman calmly takes her seat in a first-class coach and...
Showdown in Manila: Ali and Frazier's Epic Final Fight (Greatest Sports Moments)
by Matt Doeden
Describes the racial prejudice experienced by Jackie Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black player in Major League baseball and depicts the acceptance and support he received from his white teammate Pee Wee Reese.
Childhood memoirs of three black women--grandmother, mother, and daughter-who grew up between the 1880's and the 1950's
Race in John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me (Social Issues in Literature (Paperback))
Explore a little-known story of the civil rights movement, in which black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation. Mention the civil rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening in Huntsville. For the citizens of that city, creativity, courage, and cooperation were the keys to working together to integrate their city and schools in peace. In an engaging celebration of this lesser-k...
Celebra Kwanzaa Con Botitas Y Sus Gatitos (Cuentos Para Celebrar / Stories To Celebrate)
by Alma Flor Ada and F Isabel Campoy
My People (Coretta Scott King Award - Illustrator Winner Title(s))
by Langston Hughes
A Timeline of the Abolitionist Movement (Timelines of American History)
by Judy Levin
For Africans who survived the trans-Atlantic journey and were forced to disembark at one of the many ports along the coast of Britain's North American colonies, what lay before them was indeed a strange new land. Although forms of bondage had existed in West and Central Africa long before the trans Atlantic slave trade began, human beings were rarely the main commodity at the marketplace. Here in the modern world, the enslaved African was inspected, assessed, auctioned, bought, sold, bartered, a...
The Civil War (African American History) (African-American History (Abdo))
by Jim Ollhoff
1960 (Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement) (Exploring Civil Rights)
by Selene Castrovilla
1957 (Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement) (Exploring Civil Rights)
by Susan Taylor
Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from slavery until today. Adapted from the award-winning Black Texas Women, the book profiles teachers, businesswomen, civil rights leaders, community activists, doctors, nurses, athletes, musicians, artists, and political leaders and concludes with a biography of Barbara Jordan.
Harriet Tubman (Little People, Big Dreams, #14)
by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Part of the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad conductor who 'never lost a single passenger.' Little Harriet was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland. Though life was hard, Harriet persisted. She used all of her strength and bravery to escape slavery and journey north on the Underground Railroad. Harriet made the dangerous mission back to the South many times, fighting her whole life to bring...
