African-American History Subject Guide

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Because We Are by Mildred Pitts Walter

The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton; Tiffany D. Jackson; Nic Stone; Angie Thomas; Ashley Woodfolk; Nicola Yoon

Burn down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn; Claire Roe (Illustrator); Miquel Muerto (Colorist (comics))

Dandelion Travels by Angel Barber

Dorinda's Secret by Deborah Gregory

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

First Date by Lea Taddonio; Mina Price (Illustrator)

The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)

Me (Moth) by Amber McBride

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Oryon by T. Cooper; Allison Glock-Cooper

A Phoenix First Must Burn: sixteen stories of black girl magic, resistance, and hope by Patrice Caldwell (Editor)

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Bell Rang by James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

Between the Lines by Sandra Neil Wallace

Brave. Black. First. 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl Hudson; Erin K. Robinson (Illustrator)

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange; Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

Hammering for Freedom by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey From World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)

Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison; Kwesi Johnson (As told to)

March Forward, Girl by Melba Patillo Beals

Martin Rising by Andrea Davis Pinkney

My Hair Is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera (Illustrator)

Nina by Traci N. Todd; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

One Last Word by Nikki Grimes

Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson; Renée Watson

Respect by Carole Boston Weatherford; Frank Morrison (Illustrator)

Schomburg: the Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox; Christopher Paul Curtis (Introduction by)

So Tall Within by Gary D. Schmidt

Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o; Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford

Wake up Our Souls by Tonya Bolden

The Youngest Marcher : the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist by Cynthia Levinson; Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)

Woof, There It Is by Deborah Gregory