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ANTIRACISM AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE *ACD also available B = Biography G = Graphic Novel KIDS JP (picture book) FIC The Big Umbrella Amy June Bates (2018) Lil’ Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story by Romare Bearden (2003) Whoever You Are by Mem Fox (1997) When Gorilla Goes Walking by Nikki Grimes (2007) Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton (1995) Quit Calling Me a ! by Jory John and Bob Shea (2016) Hi Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats (1999) Pet Show by Ezra Jack Keats (2001) Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats (1998) The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (1962) John Henry by Julius Lester (1994) Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine (2007) Daisy and the Doll by Michael Madearis (2000) Rhyme Time Valentine by Nancy Poydar (2003) D Is For Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet by Nancy I. Sanders (2007) Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stephens (1995) The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (2018)

JP (picture book) NONFICTION Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton (2016) B She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton (2017) by Vicky Franchino (2002) B Superheroes are Everywhere by Kamala Harris (2019) B The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita L. Hubbard (2020) B Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester (2005) I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by (2004) B Hands Around the World: 365 Creative Ways to build Cultural Awareness and Global Respect by Susan Milord (1992) Jackie Robinson by Lucia Raatma (2001) B by Dana Meacham Rau (2001) B

J FIC The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (2014) Chains: Seeds of America #1 by Laurie Halse Anderson (2008) Forge: Seeds of America #2 by Laurie Halse Anderson (2010) Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden (2019) So Done by Paula Chase (2018) New Kid by Jerry Craft (2019) G Francie by Karen English (1999) The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues by Walter Dean Myers (2001) Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen (2003) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (1997) Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2018) P.S. Be Eleven by Robin Williams-Garcia (2013)

J & YA NONFICTION A Child’s Introduction to African American History by Jabari Asim (2018) They Had a Dream: the Civil Rights Struggle from to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King and by Jules Archer (1993) Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown (2015) G Freedom Walkers: The Story of the by Russell Freedman (2006) The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (2004) Freedom Roads: Searching for the by Joyce Hansen (2003) by Elizabeth Dana Jaffe (2001) Who Was ? by Yona Zeldis McDonough (2010) Heart and Soul: the Story of America and African by Kadir Nelson (2011) Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rappaport (2001) B The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and The Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheridan (2014) Courage Has No Color: the True Story of the Triple Nickels: America’s First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone (2013) Voice of Freedom: Fanny Lou Hamer, Spirit of the by Carole Boston Weatherford (2015) B

YA Lunch Box Dream by Tony Abbott (2011) by (2018) Color Me In by Natasha Diaz (2019) Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper (2001) Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by and Ibram X Kendi (2020) I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones (2019) Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2013) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017) Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson (2018) Feathers by Jaqueline Woodson (2007)* Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson (2018) If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson (1998)

ADULT - NONFICTION Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1963) Famous Black Quotations edited by Janet Cheatham Bell (1995) A Slave No More by David Blight (2009) United by (2016) Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley (2000) B At Caanan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968 by (1988)*ACD ONLY Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1963-1965 by Taylor Branch (1988) Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown (2015) Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) B* We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017) B* The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis (2014) Autobiographies by Frederick Douglass B Reconstruction by Eric Foner (1988) The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (2008) Remembering Malcom by Benjamin Kareem (1992) How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi (2019) : Book One by (2015) B G Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall B Dreams from My Father by (1995) B* The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (2007) B Becoming by Michelle Obama (2019) B* Making All by Barbara Ransby (2018) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010) Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle For Black Equality in America by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (2012) Jazz: A History of America’s Music by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns (2000) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (2010) A People’s History of the by Howard Zinn (1980) AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS A list of all black authors including fiction and non fiction, adults and kids! Bold authors are Adult Fiction. Kwame Alexander, Maya Angelou, , Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Cynthia Bond, Cory Booker, Mare Bradby, Paula Chase, Ben Carson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Helene Cooper, Bill Cosby, Frederick Douglass, Sharon M. Draper, Karen English, Ralph Ellison, Richard Thompson Ford, Annette Gordon-Reed, Nikki Grimes, Virginia Hamilton, Joyce Hansen, Kamala Harris, Zora Neal Hurston, Marlon James, Katherine Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Kimberly Jones, Tayari Jones, Ibrahim Kendi, Julius Lester, John Lewis, Ayana Mathis, Dinaw Mengestu, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Walter Dean Myers, Jerdine Nolen, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Sapphire, Angie Thomas, Renee Watson, Dorothy West, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, Richard Wright DVDS Ali (2002), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1973) BlackKKlansman (2018), Do the Right Thing (1989), Fences (2017), Freedomland (2006), Get Out (2017), Glory Road (2006), Green Book (2018), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), Harriet (2020), The Hate U Give (2018), I am Not Your Negro (2017), If Beale Street Could Talk (2019), Just Mercy (2020), (2003), Loving (2017), Moonlight (2016), Race (2016), (2004), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Selma (2015), 12 Years a Slave (2013)